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Although I currently have an Atheros A/B/G card in my T23 that works very well, I do like to occassionally try to play around with wireless and see how much range and can get with external antennas. To that end, I did a little research and found that I should look for an Orinoco or Orinoco clone that had an external antenna port. So I found one of the IBM branded Hi-Rate versions and gave it a try. Unfortunately I've never been able to get the card to work on my T21, T22 and now my T23. All these machines work on wireless and I've used a variety of card with them, but the IBM steadfastedly refuses to allow me to get the radio turned on. The drivers all seem to load fine, but, no radio function.

What am I doing wrong? Anybody have any thoughts? I've tried two different cards of the same type with the same results.

Which OS are you using these with? If it is less than WinXP you need to install the client manager in order to setup the profiles. I'm not sure if you have to with XP or not.

OMG!

I have that Proximo Orinico A/B/G Gold card and it is extremely fast and powerful.

I blows every card I've ever used or seen out of the water.
The range is unbelivable and it connects instantly and optimizes itself for the fastest link speed.

I think you can even get it to use a variety of local wireless networks at the same time to optimize for speed. Its in the manual but i didn't try to set that configuration, I just have it set to auto-detect and it does its thing.

I was using it with my Toshiba Satellite 1955-s300 notebook and it really impressed me.

Actually alot better than the regular-[censored] OEM wireless I have on my IBM right now.

Ive also used Motorola, Netgear and something called Buffalo...or ryhmes with Buffalo that was suppose to be good...bah!


Orinoco Gold FTW!

I am running XP so was thinking that the OS would resolve the different cards, but noooo.....! Anyway, at least the Atheros card is working well. In fact, I'm in the process getting another one for my wife's A30. I'm just having a strange experience with that Hi Rate card. I've used a variety of cards, including Linksys, D-Link, Intel and even Nortel without incident.

Bump

I've never used the card in XP so I am no help here.