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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
--
>So, what do *you* do for a living?
I sit in a chair pressing small plastic rectangles with my fingers
while peering at many tiny, colored dots. -- Peter Manders
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