From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.190.16]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2328069 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:16:44 -0500 Message-ID: <49A0C37E.2070901@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:16:14 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081113 SeaMonkey/1.1.13 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] 3Com wireless card References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/21/09 09:48 pm, Bob thus wrote : > ** Reply to message from "Ray Davison" on > Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:15:10 -0800 > > >>> The best advice for older machines without built-in Wi-Fi >>> >> Or maybe newer machines that don't yet have support? >> >> >>> at this point >>> is probably an external (bridge) device which connects to the ethernet >>> port. These are driver-independent and offer the full range of security >>> and performance (802.11a/b/g/n - I think they come in n). >>> >>> >> I have a TRENDNet TEW-421PC. Is that the sort of thing you are >> refereeing to? >> > > No. At least I don't think that is what he was referring to since GENMAC does > not support PC Cards. > > What I use with an old laptop that has a wired NIC is a wireless game adapter. > There are a few different devices available. What I have is a Linksys WGA54G. > > I was talking about a wireless ethernet bridge device, such as the Netgear ME101 (http://kb.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2496 ) or the LinkSys WET54G (http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WET54G ). GenMAC has *some* support for PC Cards (CardBUS, whihc are 32-bit), but not (AFAICR) PCMCIA (the image which Jeff sent was a PCMCIA card, or so it appeared - no textured gold foil over the connector end). ;-) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Treasurer, Warpstock Corporation www.warpstock.org -------------------------------------------------------------