ORiNOCO PC Card

b (B11)
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	Lucent ORiNOCO Classic (Silver/Gold)
Interface	PCMCIA (16-bit)
Connector	PCMCIA (16-bit)
ID:0156:0002
FCCID	IMRWLPCE24H
Chip1	Lucent HERMES I
Chip2	Lucent THESEUS HS
Chip3	Philips Model?
OUI: 00:02:2D (1 E, 23 W), 00:60:1D (2 E, 4 W)
Antenna Connection	MC
Wireless Standards	IEEE 802.11b
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
Operating Frequency	2.4 GHz
Additional chips IF quadrature transceiver;Philips;SA1630;SA1630BE, 016742, FP026B;1;;LQFP-48; 2.4GHz low-voltage RF transceiver (w/ LNA + mixer);Philips;SA2420;SA2420DH, 945121--, Fnr0014B;1;BiCMOS;TSSOP24; Low-voltage frequency synthesizer for radio telephones (900 / 2GHz);Philips;UMA1021M;MA1021, 010123, CnJ0272;1;BiCMOS;SSOP16; Parallel Flash memory (1 Mbit);SST;SST29LE010-150-4C-EH-70TC;SST, 29LE010, 150-4C-EH, 0030149-01;1; RAM chip;EliteMT;LP62S1024AV-55LLT;;2;
Probable Linux driver orinoco (in backports) (see also passys)
Retail
FCC approval date	20 July 1999
Country of manuf	Taiwan
FCC ID 2Wire ORiNOCO PC Card (1000-100010-001) IMRWLPCE24H Alvarion BreezeNET PC-DS.11b IMRWLPCE24H Apple AirPort Base Station M5757 (Graphite) IMRWLPCE24H Avaya World Card Silver / Gold IMRWLPCE24H Buffalo WLA-L11 IMRWLPCE24H Buffalo WLAR-L11-L IMRWLPCE24H Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11G IMRWLPCE24H Compaq WL110 IMRWLPCE24H Compaq WL215 IMRWLPCE24H D-Link DWL-660 IMRWLPCE24H Dell TrueMobile 1150 PC Card IMRWLPCE24H Enterasys CSIBD-AA IMRWLPCE24H Enterasys CSIBD-AA-128 IMRWLPCE24H IBM 26P8030 IMRWLPCE24H IBM High Rate Wireless LAN PC Card IMRWLPCE24H Lucent ORiNOCO AP-500 IMRWLPCE24H Lucent ORiNOCO RG-1000 IMRWLPCE24H Motorola USB11b IMRWLPCE24H NEC Aterm WB45RL IMRWLPCE24H ORiNOCO USB Client IMRWLPCE24H … further results

For a list of all currently documented Lucent (Agere) chipsets with specifications, see Lucent.

For a list of all currently documented Lucent device with specifications, see Lucent.

• 11 Mbps - 2.4GHz 802.11b = B11 class

Overview

These cards were extremely popular in the early 2000s before the 802.11g standard was finalized.

This was the card NetStumbler (authored by Marius Milner) was written for.. which started the WarDriving craze of the early 2000s.

This card is not to be confused with...

• Ruby (Agere W4050) radio cards (FCC ID IMRWLPCE2411R)
  • Ruby cards can only run newer firmware.. which is problematic if you want monitor mode w/ the in-kernel orinoco_cs
• HERMES II based cards from Proxim (8420 / 8421)
  • these cards are distinguishable by the label art (they feature a businessman) and smaller antenna size
  • HERMES II cards use a different driver set than HERMES I cards
• any other Proxim cards bearing the ORiNOCO brand

Various files and driver sets for these cards can be found here.

Additional specifications

Typical Receiver Sensitivity w/ 11b rates (BER < 10^-5) (more)

• -94 dBm @ 1M
• -91 dBm @ 2M
• -87 dBm @ 5.5M
• -83 dBm @ 11M

Rx Sensitivity info is per the User's Guide included with the cards. This page is viewable here.

Pictures

Bronze

See Lucent WaveLAN Bronze. These cards do not support 802.11b.

WaveLAN Silver

• 
• 

ORiNOCO Silver

• 
• 

WaveAccess Gold variant

• 
• 

Early versions (removable shields)

Cabletron CSIBD-AA

• 

  top of the board

• 

  bottom of the board

User Images

• 

  top of the board

• 

  bottom of the board

Later versions (non-removable shields)

• 

  top of the board

• 

  bottom of the board

Notes

Table

name	p/n	variant	version	prifw	cardid	fcc_id
Lucent WaveLAN Bronze	011498/A	1	1	2.04	00401-01000	IMRWLPCE24
Lucent WaveLAN Silver	012372A+B+/C+D	1	4	4.00	00101-04000	IMRWLPCE24H
Enterasys CSIBD-AA (CAB01)	012397/B	1	4.00	4.00	00101-04000	IMRWLPCE24H
Enterasys CSIBD-AA-128 (CAB03), earlier	012397/B	1	4.00	4.00	00101-04000	IMRWLPCE24H
Enterasys CSIBD-AA-128 (CAB03), later	012397/B	1	4.02	4.04	00101-04002	IMRWLPCE24H
Lucent WaveLAN Gold	012600B	1	4.00	4.00	00101-04000	IMRWLPCE24H
ORiNOCO Integrated Card (LXE Gold Card)	012606/B	1	4.02	4.04	00201-04002	unk
Alvarion BreezeNET PC-DS.11b	012609/B	unk	unk	unk	unk	IMRWLPCE24H
YDI Diamond Card	012699/B	1	4.02	4.04	00101-04002	NM5-A2400S, IMRWLPCE24H
Lucent WaveACCESS Gold	012835/A	1	unk	unk	unk	IMRWLPCE24H
Lucent ORiNOCO Silver	012938/C	1	4.00	4.04	00101-04000	IMRWLPCE24H
Sony PCWA-C100	014632/A	1	4.00	4.00	0101-04000	IMRWLPCE24H
Lucent HP ORiNOCO Silver	014839/A	1	4.00	4.00	00101-04000	IMRWLPCE24H
Lucent ORiNOCO Gold	014916/D	1	4.02	4.04	00101-04002	IMRWLPCE24H
Lucent ORiNOCO Gold	014916/F	1	4.02	4.04	00101-04002	IMRWLPCE24H
Dell TrueMobile 1150	014982/A	1	4.02	4.04	00101-04002	IMRWLPCE24H
Lucent ORiNOCO Gold (USB)	015530/B	3	4.02	4.04	00103-04002	IMRWLPCE24H
Lucent IBM Gold (bricked)	015545/A	unk	unk	unk	unk	IMRWLPCE24H
Avaya World Card (Silver)	016064/B	1	4.02	4.04	00101-04002	IMRWLPCE24H
Avaya World Card (Gold)	016065	1	4.02	unk	unk	IMRWLPCE24H
Compaq WL110 (USB)	016434/A	3	4.02	4.04	00103-4002	IMRWLPCE24H
Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11G	016687/A	2	4.02	4.04	00102-04002	IMRWLPCE24H
Lucent ORiNOCO Gold	018468/A	1	4.02	4.04	00101-04002	IMRWLPCE24H
Enterasys CSICD-AW-128	A019809/A	4	5.00	4.04	00104-05000	IMRWLPCE2411R
2Wire 1000-100016-002	019461/D	4	5.00	4.04	00104-05000	IMRWLPCE2411R
Agere ORiNOCO Gold	024205/B	4	5.00	4.04	00104-05000	IMRWLPCE2411R
Agere ORiNOCO Gold	026258/A	4	5.00	4.04	00104-05000	IMRWLPCE2411R

Flashing and PDA modifications

The cards are a pain to reflash. Flashing via Windows requires a driver compatible with the desired firmware updater and a compatible card identification string (or USB ID) for the firmware updater (barring hex edits to the updater).

If you happen to have one of the Lucent branded original USB variants, you can replace the card inside with different card (most if not all rebranded models should work) and flash it without consequence. This will conveniently allow flashing from within a VMed environment.

Silver models are able to be converted into Gold models by way of lincomatic's Alchemy, allowing you, a lowly civilian, access to military-grade encryption (ROT128). Alchemy also provides the ability to change a number of options in the PDA (MAC address, usable channels, etc). PCMCIA and USB models can use Alchemy.. provided you are using a supported driver set.

For more advanced flashing of the cards (primarily changing the CIS), Intersil's FLASH.EXE program is required.

FLASH.EXE requires a genuine DOS environment and a suitable PCMCIA controller to work.

I do not fully remember at the moment and netstumbler.org is currently down, but flashing via this method will probably require conversion into Motorola S-record format.

You can easily brick your card with this method. Please exercise caution when flashing with this utility.