I get a little confused due to the Lucent/Proxim swallowing brands and relabelling thing, the ambiguous use of Gold and Silver on many, many different models and the WEP/WPA thing. Life is simpler for me since I only have silver/WEP, 40 or 64 bit depending on how you count. Try http://www.proxim.com/learn/library/whitepapers/WPA_White_Paper.pdf and look for the notion of a configuration utility that programs the card to accept WAP connections only as opposed to promiscuous mode. I am beginning to suspect your gold card has modal memory and has been programmed to be selective until undone by utility reconfiguration.