Wireless PCMCIA card for W95?

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Hi.
It depends on what the card is suppose to connect to.
In General, this is the Wireless Story:
http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Hardware.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).


"***** charles" <shultzjrX@joimail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I would like to add a wireless PCMCIA card to my
> Compaq LTE 5280 running W95b. Any recommendations?
>
> thanks,
> charles.....
>
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless (More info?)

Most current PCMCIA cards are 32bit. You want to find 16bit card.


None of these cards would support the specialty Wireless Modes so it does
not have to be Linksys.

Example for card that supports Win95:
http://www.netgear.com/products/de [...] .php?view=

I do not the Linux aspect.

Jack (MVP-Networking).





"***** charles" <shultzjrX@joimail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Jack, thanks for the reply,
>
> The laptop has W95 on it now but I would like to do a net
> intall of Linux some time in the future so the card would
> have to be compatible (drivers) with both Windows and
> Linux. I am hoping I can get a PC card that will do both
> from a bootable floppy. The laptop can have either the
> floppy drive OR the cdrom in the front loading slot but
> not both at the same time, hence the need for a net install
> of Linux. The AP is a Linksys WRT54G. I suppose
> that the Linksys PC card may work but I don't know and
> I thought I would ask to see if anyone else has had
> experience with this kind of problem. My options are:
>
> Wireless card
> 10/100 wired card
> card that will connnect a cdrom to the pc card slot.
> cdrom that connects to the parallel port
>
> I thought the wireless card would be the most usefull
> for both doing the Linux install and general use after
> that.
>
> charles......
>
> The LTE 5280 has Penium 120, 80M of ram, a 1.3G
> hard drive and two pcmcia slots. At the moment I am
> using it to write this and I am connected to the Internet
> with an external 56K modem hooked to the serial port
> with Windows 95 and IE5.5.
>
>
> "Jack" <www.ezlan.net> wrote in message
> news7AWxBjsEHA.3572@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hi.
> > It depends on what the card is suppose to connect to.
> > In General, this is the Wireless Story:
> > http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Hardware.html
> > Jack (MVP-Networking).
> >
> >
> > "***** charles" <shultzjrX@joimail.com> wrote in message
> > news:10mtdjs9e32c5ea@corp.supernews.com...
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I would like to add a wireless PCMCIA card to my
> > > Compaq LTE 5280 running W95b. Any recommendations?
>
>
>