okay somebody claims that a reg tweak in windows can change an Orinoco Silver card into AP mode.
in /hkey/local machine/software/orinoco/driver/config00xxxx change APMODE=0 to APMODE=1
he clarified... on the OS: Windows 9x/NT4 SP6
Change ConfigName RegWord,APMODE,OwnSSID,DESIREDSSID,OWNCHANNEL nb \[hkey_local_machine\software\orinoco\driver\config0x\]