Funny, isn't it Vaughn? While a Lucent PCMCIA card IS in the Base Station, that very same card put into a PB G3 with OSX will not work with the AirPort drivers, it needs a separate driver!
And the freebee open-source driver we used had trouble sometimes with Orinco cards. I was not aware of the retail driver from IOXpers or we would have looked into that. By now, of course, all but one of the non-Airport PBs have been swapped out, and the point is mute...