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Agere Systems Winter 2002
ORiNOCO Software & Documentation (System Release 7.4)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. CD-ROM Description
2. Software Contents
3. Documentation
4. New In This Release
5. Installation Notes
6. Technical Support
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1. Package Description
This Package contains client software for the ORiNOCO PC Card and
the ORiNOCO USB Card for enterprise, home and office applications,
for the Microsoft Windows operating system environments. The
following Microsoft Windows OS versions are supported: Windows 95,
Windows NT4, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows
Millenium and Windows XP.
In this package, you can find the following items:
in \:
Readme.txt = This text file with information about this
package.
Setup.exe = application that installs or updates drivers
and client manager.
in \Win_95\PC_card:
NDIS 3 PC_card Driver (Variant 1) v7.42
in \Win_NT\PC_card:
NDIS 4 PC_card Driver (Variant 1) v7.42
in \Win_98\PC_card:
NDIS 5 PC_card Driver (Variant 1) v7.42
in \Win_98\USB:
NDIS 5 USB Driver (Variant 1) v7.42
in \Win_Me\PC_card:
NDIS 5 PC_card Driver (Variant 1) v7.42
in \Win_Me\USB:
NDIS 5 USB Driver (Variant 1) v7.42
in \Win_2000\PC_card:
NDIS 5.1 PC_card Driver (Variant 2) v7.42
in \Win_2000\USB:
NDIS 5.1 USB Driver (Variant 2) v7.42
in \Win_XP\PC_card:
NDIS 5.1 PC_card Driver (Variant 2) v7.42
in \Win_XP\USB:
NDIS 5.1 USB Driver (Variant 2) v7.42
in \Cl_Mgr:
Client Manager (Variant 1) v2.58
in \Xtras:
Microsoft Updates for the Windows Operating system.
These updates may be required in case you encounter
difficulty installing/using your ORiNOCO products.
Use only upon advice of Lucent ORiNOCO Technical Support
or instruction in the ORiNOCO User Documentation or
installation programs.
NOTE: IT IS POLICY OF AGERE SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE PRODUCTS AS
NEW TECHNOLOGY, COMPONENTS, SOFTWARE AND FIRMWARE BECOME
AVAILABLE.
AGERE SYSTEMS, THEREFORE, RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE
THE SPECIFICATIONS WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE.
TO ENSURE THAT YOU USE THE LATEST SOFTWARE OR DOCUMENTATION,
AGERE SYSTEMS ADVISES YOU TO CONSULT THE ORiNOCO WEBSITE TO
LOOK FOR/DOWNLOAD THE LATEST SOFTWARE & DOCUMENTATION FOR
YOUR ORiNOCO PRODUCTS.
HTTP://WWW.ORINOCOWIRELESS.COM/
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2. New In This Release Winter 2002
* EZ-install
The drivers and the client manager are now installed through a
single application, known as EZ-install. The EZ-install will
determine the Microsoft Windows version of your computer and
will subsequently install and configure the drivers on your system.
* Windows XP Support
The drivers for Windows XP are provided in this release. Because
Windows XP implements generic means to manage wireless network
settings, such as the SSID and the encryption key, the Control Panel
Applet is not needed and therefore not supplied for Windows XP.
On pre-XP systems, the Client Manager allows the network
configuration to be changed by opening the Control Panel Applet. On
Windows XP systems the Client Manager will guide the user to the
appropriate configuration screens in the operating system when
selecting a new wireless network profile.
* 802.1x Support
The 802.1x protocol defines means to authenticate wireless stations
and to distribute WEP encryption keys to authenticated stations. The
client side authentication function, a.k.a. the supplicant, is
provided by the Microsoft Windows XP operating system. The ORiNOCO
Windows XP drivers and the ORiNOCO Access Points support the usage of
802.1x.
* WEP Weak Key Avoidance
The key that is input to the WEP RC4 encryption algorithm consists of
the secret key configured by the user (or via 802.1x) concatenated
with the IV (Initialization Vector). The IV is determined by the
transmitting station. By excluding certain IV values that would
create so-called "weak keys", the weakness of WEP as described in
Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4" by Scott Fluhrer,
Itsik Mantin and Adi Shamir, and demonstrated through the AirSnort
program, are avoided.
* Ultra High Density support.
New values have been defined for "Distance between APs", to allow the
creation of smaller cells: Minicell and Microcell. The Minicell has a
range varying between 10 and 20 meters; the size of the Microcell
varies between 5 and 10 meters.
* Fragmentation for Performance Improvement under High Usage
The client side will fragment large data frames so the access point
is able to provide better performance when multiple clients are
sending data simultaneously.
* Control Panel Applet allows multiple cards to be installed
On non-XP Windows systems the functionality of the Control Panel
Applet (CPA) has been changed in order to allow more than one ORiNOCO
client device to be installed at the same time. The CPA now maintains
a global set of network profiles. Every active client device can be
configured to use any of these network profiles. When more than one
client device is active in a system, the Client Manager will prompt a
dialog to select the client device to be managed.
* Driver detects and selects most recent firmware
Since the Fall 2001 release, the Windows drivers implement so-called
tertiary firmware, which is downloaded during every driver
initialization onto the card. This download mechanism has now been
changed such, that the firmware download will only take place when
the firmware in the driver is more recent than the firmware in the
FlashROM on the card.
* Agere-ization has been performed, involving
Replacement of Lucent-related texts to Agere equivalent.
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3. Installation Notes
Running the setup.exe from the root of this package will install
or upgrade the applicable drivers and client manager on your
system.
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4. Technical Support
If you encounter problems when installing or using this product
or have questions about our other Agere Systems ORiNOCO products,
please contact your local Authorized ORiNOCO Reseller.
You can find their address on the ORiNOCO website.
Help us Helping you!
When contacting Technical Support, please use the Problem Report
(report.txt) and send it to us by Fax or E-Mail.
A completed Problem Report Form that includes the details about
your ORiNOCO product and its host environment will help us
helping you to solve your problems.
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Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.