ORiNOCO

Proxim, after taking over Lucent's wireless division, rebranded all their wireless cards to ORiNOCO - even cards not based on Lucent/Agere's Hermes chipset.

The WaveLAN chipsets that power ORiNOCO-branded cards were commonly used to power other wireless networking devices, and are compatible with a number of other access points, routers and wireless cards.

The following brand and models utilise the chipset, or are rebrands of an ORiNOCO product: [2] The ORiNOCO (and their derivatives) is preferred by wardrivers, due to their high sensitivity and the ability to report the level of noise (something that other chips do not report).

The pre-Proxim (or 'Classic') ORiNOCO cards have a jack for attaching an external antenna.

[3] A Linux Orinoco Driver supported the IEEE 802.11b Hermes/ORiNOCO family of chips.