ORiNOCO
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ORiNOCO was the brand name for a family of wireless networking technology by Proxim Wireless. These integrated circuits provide wireless connectivity for 802.11-compliant Wireless LANs.
Variants
Lucent offered several variants of the PC Card, referred to by different color-based monikers:- White/Bronze: WaveLAN IEEE Standard 2 Mbit/s PC Cards with 802.11 support.
- Silver: WaveLAN IEEE Turbo 11 Mbit/s PC Cards with 802.11b and 64-bit WEP support.
- Gold: WaveLAN IEEE Turbo 11 Mbit/s PC Cards with 802.11b and 128-bit WEP support.
Proxim, after taking over Lucent's wireless division, rebranded all their wireless cards to ORiNOCO - even cards not based on Lucent/Agere's Hermes chipset. Proxim still offers ORiNOCO-based cards under the 'Classic' brand.
Rebranded products
The WaveLAN chipsets that power ORiNOCO-branded cards were commonly used to power other wireless networking devices, and are compatible with a number of other access points, routers and wireless cards. The following brand and models utilise the chipset, or are rebrands of an ORiNOCO product:- 3Com AirConnect
- Apple AirPort and AirMac cards. Modified to remove the antenna stub.
- Avaya World Card
- Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS
- Compaq WL100 11 Mbit/s Wireless Adapter
- Intersil/Conexant Prism II
- D-Link DWL-650
- ELSA AirLancer MC-11
- Enterasys RoamAbout
- Ericsson WLAN Card C11
- Farallon SkyLINE
- Fujitsu RoomWave
- HyperLink Wireless PC Card 11 Mbit/s
- Intel PRO/Wireless 2011
- Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Orinoco
- Melco WLI-PCM-L11
- Microsoft Wireless Notebook Adapter MN-520
- NCR WaveLAN/IEEE Adapter
- Proxim LAN PC CARD HARMONY 80211B
- Samsung 11 Mbit/s WLAN Card
- Symbol LA4111 Spectrum24 Wireless LAN PC Card
- Toshiba Wireless LAN Mini PCI Card