[kismac] Re: MAC Spoofing with ibook G3
- From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:19:33 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, N. Karras wrote:
> The original iBook airport slot will accept a regular PCMCIA card. That's
> one step in the so-called Silver-To-Gold solution, where you turn an Orinico
> 64 bit (Silver) into an Orinoco 128 bit (gold) card via software update.
> However... When such an Orinoco card us inserted, the computer will only
> treat it as an Airport card, since Apple's airport card is essentially a
> Lucent Orinoco card. From what I have read, it will not work with other
> wireless cards even if they do fit.
The flipside seems not to be true, e.g. an Airport card in a machine isn't
recognized as an Orinoco card.
I have an Airport card which is apparently French and thus won't let me
use channels 1-9. I thought perhaps I could convince it to take Orinoco
firmware since the Mac is uninterested in flash updating it, but no such
luck.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Rossberg" <mick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:43 AM
> Subject: [kismac] Re: MAC Spoofing with ibook G3
>
>
> : Hi Holger,
> : > I have an ibook/G3 without ext. PCMCIA slot and with Airport WLAN card.
> : > I think when i want to spoof the MAC address i need another card (ex.
> : > Orinoco).
> : >
> : > My question:
> : > Can i use another WLAN card (ex. Orinoco) in the slot under the
> : > keypad, then
> : > install the drivers and
> : > spoof the MAC address.
> : > Has someone do this ? Is there enough room for another card under the
> : > keypad
> : > (without the little
> : > antenna on the cards)?
> :
> : The problem is imho that the slot is not an 'pcmcia' slot (at least no
> : real). there are a couple of pins somewhere else. the problem is
> : another one: even if you get the other hardware to work in the slot
> : (with soldering etc), the driver interface is another. you will need
> : other drivers for it.
> : the easier way would be to adapt the sourceforge wireless driver to
> : work on an airport card, since the airport card has exactly the same
> : chip interface as orinoco cards. it is not a major hack, since one
> : could look at the macjack and viha drivers, but i currently do not have
> : the time for this. if you find someone who can do it, i would give you
> : a hand however.
> :
> : mick
> :
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