VCAST and PCMCIA card

revo1059 · Post by **revo1059** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:50 pm

Is there a router that will allow me to plug a PCMCIA wireless internet (VCAST in this case) card into it and then plug the computer into the router?

Any model #'s would be great.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:37 pm

You MIGHT be able to use ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) but it may not allow you. If the VCast card creates a network connection in your Network Connections folder then see if you can right click on it, click the advanced tab, and enable ICS.

revo1059 · Post by **revo1059** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:28 pm

I thought about that, but I was looking for a hardware solution so that a computer could just be plugged in and no configuration would need to be done. I thought I saw a router with a PCMCIA slot at one time, but I can't remember where (or if it was what I needed)

Badmojo · Post by **Badmojo** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:31 pm

Those were only disigned to add wifi b/g PCcards

and if it needs user/pass names then ICS would be your only route, if its serial based logons then it might have a slight possiblity.

rndmtask · Post by **rndmtask** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:41 pm

Some crappy old computer running some open source router software could easily do it. I don't know if any do though right out of the box.