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First post, by bobsmith

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Recently I went to a thrift store and got some old Linksys PCMCIA card (as well as a cool Yamaha PSS 140 seen in the picture). The box mentioned support for 2000 and XP at a minimum but when reading the manual mentioned 98/ME and after putting in the disc it actually seemed to have drivers for 98/ME. I got my ThinkPad T42 and after running the installation wizard and installing the prerequisite Internet Explorer 6 it actually connected to our internet and worked. Unit is a WPC54G.

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PIII : ASUS CUSL2-C, Pentium III @ 733MHz (Coppermine), Voodoo3 3000 AGP, 384 MB SDR, Audigy 2 ZS,
C2D : ASUS P5Q, Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3GHz (Wolfdale), Radeon HD 5750, 4GB DDR2-1066, 256GB SSD

Reply 1 of 4, by BitWrangler

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Oh wow, I possibly have one of those and never thought of trying it on 98SE. I usually stick with the "b" class prizm 2s. I dunno if something like my P-MMX thinkpad would like the overhead though, but should be alright on the Evo PIII 900.

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Reply 2 of 4, by majestyk

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Depending on the revision there are 3 or 4 different chipsets in those WPC54 cards (Broadcom, TI, Atheros...).
Maybe you should provide the revision number (V1, V2...V7) of your card to prevent others from buying any WPC54 and not getting it to work.

Reply 3 of 4, by bobsmith

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majestyk wrote on 2023-11-04, 21:18:

Depending on the revision there are 3 or 4 different chipsets in those WPC54 cards (Broadcom, TI, Atheros...).
Maybe you should provide the revision number (V1, V2...V7) of your card to prevent others from buying any WPC54 and not getting it to work.

I think it's a v3 revision but I'm not entirely sure, where could I check?

PIII : ASUS CUSL2-C, Pentium III @ 733MHz (Coppermine), Voodoo3 3000 AGP, 384 MB SDR, Audigy 2 ZS,
C2D : ASUS P5Q, Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3GHz (Wolfdale), Radeon HD 5750, 4GB DDR2-1066, 256GB SSD

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