ciper

This may not be the best/easy way but when doing a search I got little help. Most of the referenced links didnt work :/ I was completely lost, and could see how less technical users would give up. I decided to hack at the thing until I got it working, and surprising enough I now have a compaq WL110 with Orinoco firmware

Windows XP laptop with Compaq WL110
First I inserted the card and it was detected as Compaq WL110
I downloaded the latest Orinoco driver and extracted it
In device manager I viewed the properties of the Compaq card
I chose the Driver tab and pressed update driver
Choose "Install from a list or specific.." press next
Choose "Dont search, I will choose....." press next
Press Have Disk and browse to the pc-card folder from the extracted files
From the list of hardware you will see "Orinoco PC Card (5 volt)" choose that
Reboot the machine
Now in the registry find hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\servic es\wlluc48b\enum
One of the first entry should read something like 0 reg_sz pcmcia\compaq-compaq_wl110_pc_card-e648\1
Open this entry and copy everything BETWEEN the slashes (not including them) mine said compaq-compaq_wl110_pc_card-e648 , keep that in the clipboard

Download the firmware upgrade for the Orinoco card
I used a really cool FREEWARE Hex Editor to open the firmware upgrade executable
http://www.funduc.com/fshexedit.htm
Search for 911f then highlight the entire string "lucent_technologies-wavelan/ieee-911f"
From the EDIT menu choose paste special
The box should say what you copied from the registry (compaq-compaq_wl110_pc_card-e648 for example)
Choose the paste mode as overwrite
You are almost done. You will now need to look at the part you pasted, most likely it will not have the same amount of characters as what used to be there
Mine ended up as compaq-compaq_wl110_pc_card-e648-911f
For all the extra letters you will have to DOUBLE CLICK (to select) then hit Control-B
This lets you turn all the bits to zero (which shows up as a period in the text view) It looked like compaq-compaq_wl110_pc_card-e648.... when I was done

Choose FILE Save As.
To verify the work quickly, browse to the folder where you saved your new modified file, if it has an icon that looks like a pcmcia card you didnt mess up. If the icon is generic then it wont work. Now you can flash

This took alot of hell to figure out, thought Id let others benefit (or in other words not suffer)

JTX

Or you can do it the easy way and use the Agere firmware, which works on all Orinoco cards and rebrands.

King_Ice_Flash

I thought it didn't work with the Dell 1150.

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ciper

Why isnt a link to firmware upgrade from Agere in the faq? Didnt realize I was recreating the wheel.

Oh well, a similar method will work for other cards so this is a good starting point for them.

JTX

It works AFAIK. I don't have a Truemobile 1150 to test, however. It's not that hard to find the modified 1150 Orinoco firmware on the Internet anyway, I found it on the Dell forums a while back.

JTX

It used to be on Agere's support page, but they pulled it off when they released the new drivers with WPA support. It contains even newer firmware in the driver itself, so they decided to not include the WSU anymore.

I'm just hosting it on my own right now as a public service.

undercode

I tried to run the WSU10872.exe firmware updater and get the following error:

The wireless card driver currently installed on your computer is not compatible with this utility.
Please check our website for information about the latest available drivers and firmware updates.

Details:
NDIS 5 Miniport driver
Variant 2, Version 7.82

Wireless Station Update (Windows)
Variant 1, Version 4.54

avaya world card silver 11mb/s

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

JTX

Most likely, you'll need to downgrade the drivers. Anything with a version less than 7.82 should work. Take a visit to Avaya's website and download their drivers, then run the WSU and it should work.

undercode

I tried with driver v.7.62.0.390, 7.62.0.315, 7.42.0.300, 7.64.1.316
and updater WSU10872 WSU10842 WSU10810 WSU10752.

Output from WSU10xxx:
The wireless card you are using is not compatible with this utility.
Please check our website for information ............

Details:
Wireless Station Update (Windows)
Variant 1, Version 4.52

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Variant 67, Version 53206.18



Wireless Client Manager
Status
This program is not compatible with the firmware on your card.
Network Interface Card - Variant 0, Version 13395.16952
Client Manager - Variant 1, Version 2.92
No matching variant.

With flash.exe I can read/write the PDA from it. Is it possible to change firmware with flash.exe?

Thorn

undercode,
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undercode

I need flash dump for Avaya Silver (or Orinco) because I can't change the firmware with the windows updater. It seems like the firmware is broken, but with flash.exe I can read/write the PDA, CIS, FLASH on it.
Can anyone send me the files obtained after running flash.exe with -pd, -cd, -fd options?

Any help will be apreciated.
Thanks.

mail: undercode1@yahoo.com
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