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Re: NT Wireless

Subject: Re: NT Wireless
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:16:06 +0100
Newsgroups: uk.comp.homebuilt

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:09:30 +0100, Philip Herlihy
<thiswillbounceback@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Simon Cooper wrote:
>> Father in law has a fairly elderly Compaq laptop running NT4.  Has
>> anyone noticed NT support on any wireless PCMCIA/PC Card adapter?  A
>> little googling while on the road hasn't led me anywhere yet.
>> 
>> Thanks
>
>One option, of course, is to use a USB or PC-Card Ethernet adapter, and 
>use a wireless-to-Ethernet adapter.  Many access points can be 
>configured to this function, and you can get dedicated units.  Useful 
>gadgets they can be, too.  They normally have a separate power supply, 
>which makes them a lot less portable than a PCMCIA card!

As a sort of halfway, these ethernet-to-wifi jobbies are powered off a
USB port:
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=154416

Still horribly clumsy for a laptop, mind.

        Cheers - Jaimie
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