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Early Airport Base Stations, the type with power, modem, and WAN ports, 
round, silver, have Lucent Orinoco Waveland (intersil PRISM2) cards in 
them which work as orinoco_cs, and probably also wavelan_cs (with 2.2 
kernel).  They are large cards with a place to plug in an antenna.  Weak 
signal without the antenna.

Someone gave us four of these routers, only one fully working.  (One let 
me communicate with the router itself wirelessly, one with router and our 
wired router and the DSL modem, and one did not work at all with wireless 
but the card from it works properly in a laptop, so if you get any dead 
such base stations the cards are probably not the problem even if the lack 
of wireless makes it seem so).

Non-cardbus pcmcia cards are getting hard to find.  These base stations 
should be available for little more than cost of postage, at least if 
dead.  About $200 original retail price.  I presume they have a built-in 
modem as well as wired and wireless network (cards?  - did not look at the 
rest of the gadget).

Later base stations have Apple airport rather than pcmcia cards (also 
reusable but only in a Mac).

I don't know why I can ping base station, wired router, and DSL modem but 
not get on the internet (at least not with URL - have not tried pinging a 
DNS number on the internet since that is not very useful).  A fourth one 
works as expected (with DNS server).  This one that pings all but internet 
sets up resolv.conf with 8 identical nameserver 10.0.1.1 lines.  Is there 
perhaps a software fix?  Should I use the DSL modem as nameserver instead? 
I tried some common nameservers that I used for dialup.

Sindi Keesan