We have a PII-350 PC using the ASUS P2B-F motherboard that we'd like to get more life out of, but can't really get an ethernet cable to where we can place the PC. I bought a Netgear WG311 wireless PCI adapter to take advantage of the Linksys WRT54G Router/Access Point in our house.
The system requirements listed for the WG311 include "Pentium III Class PC with an available PCI 2.2 compliant slot". This computer is running Win XP SP2 and has the PCI 2.2 compliant slots, but has a Pentium II processor. The required software installed fine, and I don't see why this PC wouldn't still work with the WG311, but it won't even boot up once I physically install the card to a slot.
Does anyone know if it's possible to get the WG311 (or some other Wireless NIC) to work with a PII-based PC? If not, any idea why not?
Thank you!
Tim
The system requirements listed for the WG311 include "Pentium III Class PC with an available PCI 2.2 compliant slot". This computer is running Win XP SP2 and has the PCI 2.2 compliant slots, but has a Pentium II processor. The required software installed fine, and I don't see why this PC wouldn't still work with the WG311, but it won't even boot up once I physically install the card to a slot.
Does anyone know if it's possible to get the WG311 (or some other Wireless NIC) to work with a PII-based PC? If not, any idea why not?
Thank you!
Tim