1. orc402.exe Driver
2. readme.txt File Contents

readme.txt Driver File Contents (orc402.exe)

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Agere Systems                                             July 2002
                       Outdoor Router Client
              for Microsoft Windows operating systems
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This readme.txt covers general information about this release
of the Client Manager. For specific information about
installing the driver in a particular operating system, consult
the readme.txt and install.txt files contained in the appropriate
subdirectories.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

1.  SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION
2.  SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
3.  NEW IN THIS RELEASE
4.  INSTALLATION NOTES
5.  TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS
6.  KNOWN ISSUES

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1.  SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION

1.1 About this software
    This software package supports the OR Client network protocols
    on Windows PC's using the following network interface cards:
     * ORiNOCO PC Card (Silver and Gold)
     * WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo 11 Mb Card
     * WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo Card (8 Mb)
     * WaveLAN/IEEE PC Card (2 Mb)

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2.  SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS

2.1 Overview
    This release of the Client Manager supports the following
    operating systems:
      * Windows 95
      * Windows 98
      * Windows 98 SE
      * Windows ME
      * Windows NT 4.0 (SP4 or higher)
      * Windows 2000
      * Windows XP

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!
    ! IMPORTANT !
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Read the 'readme.txt' and 'install.txt' files in
    each of the directories before installing the driver. They
    contain important information which may prevent you from
    having problems in the first place.

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3.  NEW IN THIS RELEASE

3.1 Client Manager
    * Includes support for Ruby PC Cards.
    * Enabled both AP Client mode and OR Client
      mode without re-installing the driver
    * AP Client mode matches the 7.02 release of
      the Agere NDIS driver
    * New release of the Client Manager requires use of new
      license keys. The new license keys are
      of the form 'SHKG-A105-CA40-42L9-AKDJ'. Notice that
      the new license key is visibly different from older
      license keys.
      - New license key DOES NOT protect the System Access
        Pass Phrase.
      - New license key contains the Data Rate throttle
        embedded inside of it, so the user does not
        have to enter the Data Rate separately
    * Added OR Client Frequency Channel Auto-Select functionality
      for automatically detecting the frequency channel the
      ISP Base Station is running on. This makes installation
      and migration to different frequency channels much
      easier to manage.
      - For OR Client Frequency Channel Auto-Select to work
        correctly, the NWID and Frequency Channel numbers MUST
        match (i.e. Frequency Channel 6 and NWID 6). If the
        channel number and NWID used by your ISP Base Station
        are not the same number, then the PC driver WILL NOT
        correctly establish a connection when Channel
        Auto-Select is enabled.
      - For Frequency Channel Auto-Select to work, you MUST run
        kernel version 3.88 or higher on your ISP Base Station.
      - The PC Driver will work correctly with all existing
        ISP Base Stations when Frequency Channel Auto-Select is
        DISABLED.
    * Solved a bug where the OR Client PC Driver could hang
      the user's PC under certain conditions, including when
      the output queue fills (e.g. if the connection with the
      ISP Base Station was lost).
    * Fine-tuned the data rate throttling mechanism to
      obtain more accurate throttling, and to correctly
      throttle at speeds above 1 Mbps.
    * Increased OR Client performance by up to 20%.

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4.  INSTALLATION NOTES

4.1 Standard Installation
    Please refer to the install.txt file in each driver
    installation subdirectory.

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5.  TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS

5.1 Compatibility with previous ISP Base Station versions
    The Frequency Channel Auto-Select feature IS NOT compatible
    with older versions of OR Client ISP Base Station software.
    All other features should work with older ISP Base Stations.

5.2 Frequency Channel Auto-Select
    * For OR Client Frequency Channel Auto-Select to work
      correctly, the NWID and Frequency Channel numbers MUST
      match (i.e. Frequency Channel 6 and NWID 6). If the
      channel number and NWID used by your ISP Base Station
      are not the same number, then the PC driver WILL NOT
      correctly establish a connection when Channel
      Auto-Select is enabled.
    * For Frequency Channel Auto-Select to work, you MUST run
      kernel version 3.88 or higher on your ISP Base Station.
    * The PC Driver will work correctly with all existing
      ISP Base Stations when Frequency Channel Auto-Select is
      DISABLED.

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6.  KNOWN ISSUES

    This release does not support Ruby PC Cards.


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