I have a number of WaveLan cards. Mostly from IETFs.

  I had been using a pair of RoamAbouts (Cabletron), then my base station
system got moved and one card was returned to its owner, since I had a Lucent
one from Minneapolis.

  I tried last night to bring things up again. No dice.  
  (I have an ISA PCMCIA adapter, so lots of PCI/ISA magic...)

  So, I tried my old and new notebooks. No dice.
  So, I tried at a friend that has wireless. Roamabout works. Orinico does
not.  Linux on his notebook, same results. The linux driver says that the
Orinico needs a ESSID set. (e.g. "ifconfig wi0 nwid xxxx", "wiconfig -i wi0
-n xxxx", or "iwconfig" on Linux). 

  We tried, no luck.

  I'm sure that it worked in base station mode. He has a base station
(currently off in favour of a Linux gateway) that he is going to try. The
card may just be broken.
  Firmware rev: 60006. 
  (Roamabout: rev: 60004)

  If others have this working in adhoc mode, please let me know, and I'll
assume my card just died.

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