response 50 of 52:

Sep 29 20:38 UTC 2006

So the 11Mbps type should work fine for internet purposes.  The only  ones
I could find at ebay seemed to be cardbus (32-bit).  I have a cardbus 11MBit
model which may not work at all with my hardware.  I found a long list of
non-cardbus models which should work with linux but nobody was selling them.
Where could I look other than ebay?  Do any grexer have a really old pcmcia
wireless ethernet card they don't want?  The cardbus 11Mbps were asking $5
and no bids.

We should try the cardbus one with Win98 again, now that we fixed the BIOS
so the modem works.  (The com ports were messed up somehow).  Is it possible
to go online with Win98 and connect via cable to a linux computer, then use
linux online?

response 52 of 52:

Sep 29 22:16 UTC 2006

Thanks, online research suggests it is non-cardbus and works in linux with
module orinoco_cs.  Other people report having problems with it.  It is not
on the list of linux-compatible pcmcia devices (which is a bit out of date).

Should a cardbus card work with a 200MHz computer, circa 1997?  It appears
to have come with Win95 on it and was upgraded to Win98 and we have the CD
for Win98 for this card.  Cardbus was standardized in 1996.  It did not work
for us in Win98 but neither did the modem, and we fixed that in BIOS.