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Man this is a major bummer.. I've got an old Lappy 200MMX And I just bought a WiFi router w/4port switch 802.11G and the poor old lappy can't read or use the New WiFi card I bought.. I guess my laptop doesn't have a 32-bit PCMCIA card slot reader.. *sigh* Oh well.. Even tried it in my iPaq and it was a no go as well. Guess I'll just have to wait till the g/f gets here this weekend to try it out in hers. I'm curious to see what the neighbors have got hooked up around here (if anything). The box says these things have pretty good range. I wonder how good it really is... Anybody know if there's a way around this BTW?

Thanks!

eGo

i suggest trying a orinoco gold/silver 802.11b card; you may want to avoid the newer proxim (new company name) cards as they may require a 32bit pcmcia slot. orinoco gold cards were the favorite of the war driving community since they had a builtin pigtail adapter, firmware-changeable MAC addresses, and driver support in every OS.

yep, the orrincos kick ass- spendy though-pugs may be able to hook you up
I just got a couple airlink .g adapters and they work fabulous for how cheap they are
I love the 54mb/s plus i have access to 2 unsecured 802.11b points somewhere here in the neiborhood

I have a couple of Dell WiFi PCMCIA cards in my laptops that are re-badged Orinoco Gold cards. I LOVE 'em. Don't think Dell sells them anymore though.

YEa as you all know im sitting on a pile of them cards.. and they all have the nice little antenna port on them. They are nice indeed... IF I CAN ONLY GET ONE TO WORK IN MY COMPUTER!!!!

Eventually i will... I got a tripod and antenna here waiting to get some bandwith luvins.