WaveLAN
Encyclopedia
WaveLAN is a brand
that describes two completely different families of wireless network
solutions:
, (later the Network Products Division of NCR) in 1986-7, and introduced to the market in 1988 as a wireless alternative to Ethernet
and Token-Ring. The next year NCR contributed the WaveLAN design to the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee. This led to the founding of the 802.11 Wireless LAN Working Committee which produced the original IEEE 802.11 standard, which eventually became known popularly as Wi-Fi
. When NCR was acquired by AT&T
in 1991, becoming the AT&T GIS (Global Information Solutions) business unit, the product name was retained, as happened two years later when the product was transferred to the AT&T GBCS (Global Business Communications Systems) business unit, and again when AT&T spun off their GBCS business unit as Lucent in 1995. The technology was also sold as WaveLAN under an OEM
agreement by Epson, Hitachi
,and NEC
, and as the RoamAbout DS by DEC
. It competed directly with Aironet's
non-802.11 ARLAN lineup, which offered similar speeds, frequency ranges and hardware.
Several companies also marketed wireless bridges and routers based on the WaveLAN ISA
and PC card
s, like the C-Spec OverLAN, KarlNet KarlBridge, Persoft Intersect Remote Bridge, and Solectek AIRLAN/Bridge Plus. Lucent's WavePoint II access point could accommodate both the classic WaveLAN PC cards as well as the WaveLAN IEEE cards. Also, there was a number of compatible third-party products available to address niche markets such as: Digital Ocean's Grouper, Manta, and Starfish offerings for the Apple Newton and Macintosh; Solectek's 915 MHz WaveLAN parallel port adapter; Microplex's M204 WaveLAN-compatible wireless print server; NEC's Japanese-market only C&C-Net 2.4 GHz adapter for the NEC-bus; Toshiba's Japanese-market only WaveCOM 2.4 GHz adapter for the Toshiba-Bus; and Teklogix
's WaveLAN-compatible Pen-based and Notebook terminals.
During this time frame, networking professionals also realized that since Netware 3.x and 4.x supported the WaveLAN cards and came with a Multi Protocol Router module that supported the IP/IPX
RIP
and OSPF routing protocols
, one could construct a wireless routed
network using Netware servers and WaveLAN cards for a fraction of the cost of building a wireless bridged network using WaveLAN access points. Many Netware classes and textbooks of the time included a Netware OS CD with a 2-person license, so potentially the only cost incurred came from hardware.
When the 802.11 procotol was ratified, Lucent began producing chipsets to support this new standard under the name of WaveLAN IEEE, which it later renamed to ORiNOCO. Shortly thereafter, Lucent spun off the division that produced these chipsets as Agere, which was later acquired by Proxim. Proxim later renamed its entire 802.11 wireless networking lineup to ORiNOCO, including products based on Atheros
chipsets.
or 2.4 GHz ISM
bands. Being a proprietary pre-802.11 protocol, it is completely incompatible with the 802.11 standard.
controller, which was a commonly used controller in its time and was found in many ISA and MCA Ethernet cards, such as the Intel EtherExpress 16 and the 3COM
3C523. The PCMCIA cards used the Intel 82593 PHY controller. The radio modem section was hidden from the OS, thus making the WaveLAN card appear to be a typical Ethernet card, with the radio-specific features taken care of behind the scenes.
While the 900 MHz models and the early 2.4 GHz models operated on one fixed frequency, the later 2.4 GHz cards as well as some 2.4 GHz WavePoint access points had the hardware capacity to operate over ten channels, ranging from 2.412 GHz to 2.484 GHz, with the channels available being determined by the region-specific firmware.
encryption (56-bit) was an option in some of the ISA and MCA cards and all of the WavePoint access points. The full-length ISA and MCA cards had a socket for an encryption chip, the half-length 915 MHz ISA cards had solder pads for a socket which was never added, and the 2.4 GHz half-length ISA cards had the chip soldered directly to the board.
There are two large holes in the WaveLAN security strategy, though:
has included support for ISA Classic WaveLAN cards since the 2.0.37 kernel, while full support for the PC card Classic WaveLAN cards came later. Status of support for MCA Classic Wavelan cards is unknown.
FreeBSD
version 2.2.1-up and the Mach4
kernel have had native support for the ISA Classic WaveLAN cards for several years. OpenBSD
and NetBSD
do not natively support any of the Classic WaveLAN cards.
Several open-source projects, such as NdisWrapper
and Project Evil, currently exist that allow the use of NDIS drivers via a "wrapper
". This allows non-Windows OS' to utilize the near-universal nature of drivers written for the Windows platform to the benefit of other operating systems, such as Linux, FreeBSD, and ZETA.
Brand
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that describes two completely different families of wireless network
Wireless network
Wireless network refers to any type of computer network that is not connected by cables of any kind. It is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and enterprise installations avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building, or as a connection between various equipment...
solutions:
- Pre-IEEE 802.11IEEE 802.11IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards for implementing wireless local area network computer communication in the 2.4, 3.6 and 5 GHz frequency bands. They are created and maintained by the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee . The base version of the standard IEEE 802.11-2007 has had subsequent...
WaveLAN, also called Classic WaveLAN - IEEE 802.11-compliant WaveLAN, also known as WaveLAN IEEE or ORiNOCOORiNOCOORiNOCO is the brand name that was used for a family of wireless networking solutions by Proxim Wireless . These chipsets provide wireless connectivity for 802.11-compliant Wireless LANs.- Variants :...
History
WaveLAN was originally designed by COMTEN, a subsidiary of NCR CorporationNCR Corporation
NCR Corporation is an American technology company specializing in kiosk products for the retail, financial, travel, healthcare, food service, entertainment, gaming and public sector industries. Its main products are self-service kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, automated teller machines, check...
, (later the Network Products Division of NCR) in 1986-7, and introduced to the market in 1988 as a wireless alternative to Ethernet
Ethernet
Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....
and Token-Ring. The next year NCR contributed the WaveLAN design to the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee. This led to the founding of the 802.11 Wireless LAN Working Committee which produced the original IEEE 802.11 standard, which eventually became known popularly as Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...
. When NCR was acquired by AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
in 1991, becoming the AT&T GIS (Global Information Solutions) business unit, the product name was retained, as happened two years later when the product was transferred to the AT&T GBCS (Global Business Communications Systems) business unit, and again when AT&T spun off their GBCS business unit as Lucent in 1995. The technology was also sold as WaveLAN under an OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer
An original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, manufactures products or components that are purchased by a company and retailed under that purchasing company's brand name. OEM refers to the company that originally manufactured the product. When referring to automotive parts, OEM designates a...
agreement by Epson, Hitachi
Hitachi, Ltd.
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies...
,and NEC
NEC
, a Japanese multinational IT company, has its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. NEC, part of the Sumitomo Group, provides information technology and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government....
, and as the RoamAbout DS by DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...
. It competed directly with Aironet's
Aironet Wireless Communications
Aironet is a maker of wireless networking equipment currently operated as a division of Cisco Systems. It was started by ex-Marconi Wireless employees in 1986 as Telesystems SLW in Canada, right after the United States Federal Communications Commission opened up the ISM bands for spread spectrum...
non-802.11 ARLAN lineup, which offered similar speeds, frequency ranges and hardware.
Several companies also marketed wireless bridges and routers based on the WaveLAN ISA
Industry Standard Architecture
Industry Standard Architecture is a computer bus standard for IBM PC compatible computers introduced with the IBM Personal Computer to support its Intel 8088 microprocessor's 8-bit external data bus and extended to 16 bits for the IBM Personal Computer/AT's Intel 80286 processor...
and PC card
PC card
In computing, PC Card is the form factor of a peripheral interface designed for laptop computers. The PC Card standard was defined and developed by the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association which itself was created by a number of computer industry companies in the United States...
s, like the C-Spec OverLAN, KarlNet KarlBridge, Persoft Intersect Remote Bridge, and Solectek AIRLAN/Bridge Plus. Lucent's WavePoint II access point could accommodate both the classic WaveLAN PC cards as well as the WaveLAN IEEE cards. Also, there was a number of compatible third-party products available to address niche markets such as: Digital Ocean's Grouper, Manta, and Starfish offerings for the Apple Newton and Macintosh; Solectek's 915 MHz WaveLAN parallel port adapter; Microplex's M204 WaveLAN-compatible wireless print server; NEC's Japanese-market only C&C-Net 2.4 GHz adapter for the NEC-bus; Toshiba's Japanese-market only WaveCOM 2.4 GHz adapter for the Toshiba-Bus; and Teklogix
Teklogix
-About The Company:Teklogix was created in 1967 by Lawrence Cragg together with a small group of engineers.The company focused on mini computer applications. It designed and built complete systems based upon DEC's PDP-8 computer, DEC's logic modules and purpose built logic...
's WaveLAN-compatible Pen-based and Notebook terminals.
During this time frame, networking professionals also realized that since Netware 3.x and 4.x supported the WaveLAN cards and came with a Multi Protocol Router module that supported the IP/IPX
IPX
Internetwork Packet Exchange is the OSI-model Network layer protocol in the IPX/SPX protocol stack.The IPX/SPXM protocol stack is supported by Novell's NetWare network operating system. Because of Netware's popularity through the late 1980s into the mid 1990s, IPX became a popular internetworking...
RIP
Routing Information Protocol
The Routing Information Protocol is a distance-vector routing protocol, which employs the hop count as a routing metric. RIP prevents routing loops by implementing a limit on the number of hops allowed in a path from the source to a destination. The maximum number of hops allowed for RIP is 15....
and OSPF routing protocols
Network layer
The network layer is layer 3 of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking.The network layer is responsible for packet forwarding including routing through intermediate routers, whereas the data link layer is responsible for media access control, flow control and error checking.The network...
, one could construct a wireless routed
Routing
Routing is the process of selecting paths in a network along which to send network traffic. Routing is performed for many kinds of networks, including the telephone network , electronic data networks , and transportation networks...
network using Netware servers and WaveLAN cards for a fraction of the cost of building a wireless bridged network using WaveLAN access points. Many Netware classes and textbooks of the time included a Netware OS CD with a 2-person license, so potentially the only cost incurred came from hardware.
When the 802.11 procotol was ratified, Lucent began producing chipsets to support this new standard under the name of WaveLAN IEEE, which it later renamed to ORiNOCO. Shortly thereafter, Lucent spun off the division that produced these chipsets as Agere, which was later acquired by Proxim. Proxim later renamed its entire 802.11 wireless networking lineup to ORiNOCO, including products based on Atheros
Atheros
Qualcomm Atheros is a developer of semiconductors for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets. Founded under the name Atheros in 1998 by experts in signal processing from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley and the private industry, it became a public company...
chipsets.
Specifications
Classic WaveLAN operates in the 900 MHz33 centimeters
The 33-centimeter or 900 MHz band is a portion of the UHF radio spectrum internationally allocated to amateur radio on a secondary basis. It ranges from 902 to 928 MHz and is unique to ITU Region 2. It is primarily used for very local communications as opposed to bands lower in frequency...
or 2.4 GHz ISM
ISM band
The industrial, scientific and medical radio bands are radio bands reserved internationally for the use of radio frequency energy for industrial, scientific and medical purposes other than communications....
bands. Being a proprietary pre-802.11 protocol, it is completely incompatible with the 802.11 standard.
Hardware
The ISA and MCA cards were based on the Intel 82586 Ethernet PHYPHY
PHY is an abbreviation for the physical layer of the OSI model.An instantiation of PHY connects a link layer device to a physical medium such as an optical fiber or copper cable. A PHY device typically includes a Physical Coding Sublayer and a Physical Medium Dependent layer. The PCS encodes and...
controller, which was a commonly used controller in its time and was found in many ISA and MCA Ethernet cards, such as the Intel EtherExpress 16 and the 3COM
3Com
3Com was a pioneering digital electronics manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney, Bruce Borden, and Greg Shaw...
3C523. The PCMCIA cards used the Intel 82593 PHY controller. The radio modem section was hidden from the OS, thus making the WaveLAN card appear to be a typical Ethernet card, with the radio-specific features taken care of behind the scenes.
While the 900 MHz models and the early 2.4 GHz models operated on one fixed frequency, the later 2.4 GHz cards as well as some 2.4 GHz WavePoint access points had the hardware capacity to operate over ten channels, ranging from 2.412 GHz to 2.484 GHz, with the channels available being determined by the region-specific firmware.
Security
For security, WaveLAN used a 16-bit NWID (NetWork ID) field, which yielded 65,536 potential combinations; the radio portion of the device could receive radio traffic tagged with another NWID, but the controller would discard the traffic. DESData Encryption Standard
The Data Encryption Standard is a block cipher that uses shared secret encryption. It was selected by the National Bureau of Standards as an official Federal Information Processing Standard for the United States in 1976 and which has subsequently enjoyed widespread use internationally. It is...
encryption (56-bit) was an option in some of the ISA and MCA cards and all of the WavePoint access points. The full-length ISA and MCA cards had a socket for an encryption chip, the half-length 915 MHz ISA cards had solder pads for a socket which was never added, and the 2.4 GHz half-length ISA cards had the chip soldered directly to the board.
There are two large holes in the WaveLAN security strategy, though:
- All WaveLAN devices utilize the same spreading code in their DSSS scheme, so a WaveLAN card in promiscuous modePromiscuous modeIn computer networking, promiscuous mode or promisc mode is a mode for a network interface controller that causes the NIC to pass all traffic it receives to the central processing unit rather than just passing frames the NIC is intended to receive...
and set to ignore the NWID parameter could sniff and decode any WaveLAN radio traffic it encountered. - Even if DES encryption is used, as of 2009, 56-bit DES is widely considered to be obsolete and is subject to brute force attacks well within the capabilities of consumer-grade computer equipment.
Official specifications
| Realm | Type | Number of frequencies | Frequency | Modulation technique | Output power | Maximum data rate | Media Access Control Media Access Control The media access control data communication protocol sub-layer, also known as the medium access control, is a sublayer of the data link layer specified in the seven-layer OSI model , and in the four-layer TCP/IP model... |
Security |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worldwide | 900 MHz | 1 | 915 MHz | DSSS/DQPSK | 250 mW | 2 Mbit/s | CSMA/CA Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance , in computer networking, is a wireless network multiple access method in which:*a carrier sensing scheme is used.... |
16-bit network ID and optional DES encryption |
| US and Canada | 2.4 GHz | 6 | 2.412 GHz, 2.422 GHz, 2.432 GHz, 2.442 GHz, 2.452 GHz, 2.462 GHz | DSSS/DQPSK | 32 mW | 2 Mbit/s | CSMA/CA | 16-bit network ID and optional DES encryption |
| Europe (except France) | 2.4 GHz | 8 | 2.422 GHz, 2.425 GHz, 2.4305 GHz, 2.432 GHz, 2.442 GHz, 2.452 GHz, 2.460 GHz, 2.462 GHz | DSSS/DQPSK | 32 mW | 2 Mbit/s | CSMA/CA | 16-bit network ID and optional DES encryption |
| France | 2.4 GHz | 2 | 2.460 GHz and 2.462 GHz | DSSS/DQPSK | 32 mW | 2 Mbit/s | CSMA/CA | 16-bit network ID and optional DES encryption |
| Australia | 2.4 GHz | 4 | 2.422 GHz, 2.425 GHz, 2.432 GHz, 2.442 GHz | DSSS/DQPSK | 32 mW | 2 Mbit/s | CSMA/CA | 16-bit network ID and optional DES encryption |
| Japan | 2.4 GHz | 1 | 2.484 GHz | DSSS/DQPSK | 32 mW | 2 Mbit/s | CSMA/CA | 16-bit network ID and optional DES encryption |
Officially released drivers
- Windows 3.11, 95Windows 95Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft, and was a significant progression from the company's previous Windows products...
, and NTWindows NTWindows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement...
3.5/4.0- Windows 3.11, Windows 95, and 98Windows 98Windows 98 is a graphical operating system by Microsoft. It is the second major release in the Windows 9x line of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on 15 May 1998 and to retail on 25 June 1998. Windows 98 is the successor to Windows 95. Like its predecessor, it is a hybrid...
supported the ISA and MCA cards natively but did not provide any configuration or link diagnostics utilities. - Windows NT 3.51 did not natively support the WaveLAN cards, but additional drivers from Microsoft's Windows NT Driver Library were available.
- Windows 3.11, Windows 95, and 98
- OS/2OS/2OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "Personal System/2 " line of second-generation personal...
NDIS and NetWare Requester - LAN ManagerLAN ManagerLAN Manager was a Network Operating System available from multiple vendors and developed by Microsoft in cooperation with 3Com Corporation. It was designed to succeed 3Com's 3+Share network server software which ran atop a heavily modified version of MS-DOS.-Development history:LAN Manager was...
/IBM LAN Server - Artisoft LantasticLantasticLANtastic is a peer-to-peer local area network operating system for DOS, Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and OS/2. LANtastic supports Ethernet, ARCNET and Token Ring adapters as well as its original twisted-pair adapter at ....
- PC-TCPFTP SoftwareFTP Software was a software company incorporated in 1986 by James van Bokkelen, John Romkey , Nancy Connor, Roxanne van Bokkelen , Dave Bridgham and several other founding shareholders. It was the first of many companies to name themselves after an Internet protocol...
for DOS - NetWare Lite, 2, 3, and 4. Netware 4.11 through 5.x supported the ISA and MCA cards natively but did not provide any configuration or link diagnostics utilities.
- ODIOpen Data-Link InterfaceThe Open Data-Link Interface , developed by Apple and Novell, serves the same function as Microsoft and 3COM's Network Driver Interface Specification . Originally, ODI was written for NetWare and Macintosh environments. Like NDIS, ODI provides rules that establish a vendor-neutral interface between...
/VLM NetWare client for DOSMS-DOSMS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
. The DOS drivers came with configuration and link diagnostics utilities. - SCO UNIX version 1.00.00.00
- UnixWareUnixWareUnixWare is a Unix operating system maintained by The SCO Group . UnixWare is typically deployed as a server rather than desktop. Binary distributions of UnixWare are available for x86 architecture computers. It was originally released by Univel, a jointly owned venture of AT&T's Unix System...
version 1.1 - NCR's documentation stated that drivers for Banyan VinesBanyan VINESBanyan VINES was a computer network operating system and the set of computer network protocols it used to talk to client machines on the network. The Banyan company based the VINES operating system on Unix, and the network protocols on the archetypical Xerox XNS stack...
5.05 were available on Banyan's BBSBulletin board systemA Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging...
, but it is unclear if they ever materialized
Volunteer-developed drivers
LinuxLinux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
has included support for ISA Classic WaveLAN cards since the 2.0.37 kernel, while full support for the PC card Classic WaveLAN cards came later. Status of support for MCA Classic Wavelan cards is unknown.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...
version 2.2.1-up and the Mach4
GNU Mach
GNU Mach is an implementation of the Mach microkernel. It is the default microkernel in the GNU Hurd operating system. GNU Mach runs on IA-32 machines. GNU Mach is maintained by developers on the GNU project...
kernel have had native support for the ISA Classic WaveLAN cards for several years. OpenBSD
OpenBSD
OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It was forked from NetBSD by project leader Theo de Raadt in late 1995...
and NetBSD
NetBSD
NetBSD is a freely available open source version of the Berkeley Software Distribution Unix operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed. The NetBSD project is primarily focused on high quality design,...
do not natively support any of the Classic WaveLAN cards.
Several open-source projects, such as NdisWrapper
NdisWrapper
NDISwrapper, is a free software driver wrapper that enables the use of Windows XP drivers for network devices , on Linux only operating systems. NDISwrapper works by implementing the Windows kernel and NDIS APIs, and dynamically linking the Windows drivers to this implementation...
and Project Evil, currently exist that allow the use of NDIS drivers via a "wrapper
Driver wrapper
A driver wrapper is software that functions as an adapter between an operating system and a driver, such as a device driver, that was not designed for that operating system. It can enable the use of devices for which no drivers for the particular operating system are available...
". This allows non-Windows OS' to utilize the near-universal nature of drivers written for the Windows platform to the benefit of other operating systems, such as Linux, FreeBSD, and ZETA.
Examples
Classic WaveLAN technology was available for different interfaces:915 MHz
- Full-length ISAIndustry Standard ArchitectureIndustry Standard Architecture is a computer bus standard for IBM PC compatible computers introduced with the IBM Personal Computer to support its Intel 8088 microprocessor's 8-bit external data bus and extended to 16 bits for the IBM Personal Computer/AT's Intel 80286 processor...
card- F connectorF connectorThe F connector is a type of coaxial RF connector commonly used for "over the air" terrestrial television, cable television and universally for satellite television and cable modems, usually with RG-6/U cable or, in older installations, with RG-59/U cable. It was invented by Eric E...
- RG-59/URG-59RG-59/U is a specific type of coaxial cable, often used for low-power video and RF signal connections. The cable has a characteristic impedance of 75 ohms. The 75 ohm impedance matches a dipole antenna in free space. "RG" was originally a unit indicator for bulk radio frequency cable in the...
antenna cable - NCR 008-0126998 HOLI (HOst Lan Interface) chip
- NCR 008-0126999 IcarusIcarus-Space and astronomy:* Icarus , on the Moon* Icarus , a planetary science journal* 1566 Icarus, an asteroid* IKAROS, a interplanetary unmanned spacecraft...
or NCR 008-0127211 DaedalusDaedalusIn Greek mythology, Daedalus was a skillful craftsman and artisan.-Family:...
chip - Intel N82586 PHY controller chip
- NCR part number 601-0068991
- AT&T part number 3399-F170
- F connector
- Half-length ISA card
- SMB connectorSMB connectorSMB connectors are coaxial RF connectors developed in the 1960s. SMB connectors are smaller than SMA connectors.They feature a snap-on coupling and are available in either 50 Ω or 75 Ω impedance...
- NCR 008-0126998 HOLI chip
- Intel N82586 PHY controller chip
- AT&T part number 3399-K602.
- SMB connector
- Full-length MCAMicro Channel architectureMicro Channel Architecture was a proprietary 16- or 32-bit parallel computer bus introduced by IBM in 1987 which was used on PS/2 and other computers through the mid 1990s.- Background :...
card- F connector
- NCR 008-0127216 HOLI chip
- NCR 008-0126999 Icarus chip
- NCR 8-127000A socketed DES encryption chip
- Intel N82586 PHY controller chip
- MCA id number 6A14.
- PC cardPC cardIn computing, PC Card is the form factor of a peripheral interface designed for laptop computers. The PC Card standard was defined and developed by the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association which itself was created by a number of computer industry companies in the United States...
- Large EAM (External Antenna Module)
- Intel i82593 PHY controller chip
- AT&T part number 3399-K080
- Compaq/DEC Roamabout part number: DEINA-AA.
2.4 GHz
- Full-length ISA card
- Fixed frequency.
- Half-length ISA card
- SMB connector
- Selectable frequency
- Symbios LogicSymbios LogicSymbios Logic was a manufacturer of SCSI host adapter chipsets and disk array storage subsystems. It was originally established as a division of NCR Corporation in 1972, before NCR's takeover by AT&T in 1991....
008-0126998 HOLI chip - Intel N82586 PHY controller chip
- AT&T part number 3399-K635.
- Full-length MCAMicro Channel architectureMicro Channel Architecture was a proprietary 16- or 32-bit parallel computer bus introduced by IBM in 1987 which was used on PS/2 and other computers through the mid 1990s.- Background :...
card- SMB connector
- NCR 008-0127216 HOLI chip
- NCR 008-0127211 Daedalus chip
- NCR 8-127000A socketed DES encryption chip
- Intel N82586 PHY controller chip
- AT&T part number 3399-K066
- MCA id number 6A14.
- PC card - 2.4 GHz, selectable frequency, large EAM (External Antenna Module).
- Intel N82593 PHY controller chip
- AT&T part number: AT&T 3399-K624.
- Lucent part number: LUC 3399-K644.
- Compaq/DEC Roamabout part number: DEIRB-xx.
Options
- DES encryption chip. Part number 3399-K972.
- Boot ROM chip. Part number 3399-K973.
External links
- NCR's HTTP site with a selection of WaveLAN drivers and documentation
- [ftp://ftp.uniroma2.it/Digital/support/RoamAbout/ FTP mirror site of DEC's ftp server with a selection of RoamAbout drivers and documentation]
- Detailed analysis of WaveLAN ISA cards
- Wayback machine archive of documentation on an NCR WaveLAN backbone built in Latvia
- Wayback machine archive of Byte Magazine's review of WaveLAN
- Wayback machine archive for Wavelan Classic products
- Detailed analysis of Wavelan MCA cards