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 > : > : > : -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- > : -- File: PGP.sig > : -- Desc: This is a digitally signed message part > : > : -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > : Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) > : > : iD8DBQE/noCH6ssxlS0dtH4RAsbXAKCEeNoJ/O3DBQvFbryAqPOw6xeKIgCbBOvq > : Nd0phYtyMOXelL7lfJy+c0U= > : =PkOa > : -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > : > : > > >