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Any PCMCIA wireless LAN adapters for Windows 95 (3.x too)?

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First post, by DoomGuy II

Posted on 2016-01-27, 07:47

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I have myself a Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA Wireless LAN card that I use for my Panasonic CF-25.

It works very well and was able to connect it to public Wi-Fi and one of my WEP protected networks, with the exception of the ability to connect to WPA protected networks and the fact that it blue screens at times when it's plugged in for too long (may be the computer). What I want to find out is if there are any other PCMCIA Wireless LAN adapters that would function under Windows 95 (and even Windows 3.x if possible). Any takers?

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Reply 1 of 6, by Stiletto

Posted on 2016-01-27, 15:42

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Pretty sure there's at least one other thread about this on here somewhere...

Back in the day I used an Orinoco Gold card (I think rebranded as a Dell TrueMobile 1150 card) which had a frighteningly huge list of supported OS's.

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Reply 2 of 6, by DamienC

Posted on 2016-01-28, 14:08

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I used to have a Netgear 802.11b PCMCIA card in my IBM Thinkpad 760ED that ran Win98. I used to use it to remote desktop into my XP machine at the time. I'm pretty sure it had Windows 95 drivers as well.

Reply 3 of 6, by CelGen

Posted on 2016-01-28, 15:05

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Lucent WaveLAN/Orinoco 802.11b wireless cards are supported by everything. I'm pretty sure if you even dropped it into a toaster it would show up on the LAN. 🤣
You can typically get a card for $5-$10 and reflash the firmware to the "gold" version which supports WEP-128 and their OEM rebrands are extremely easy to identify because they always have a black antenna cover with two LED's and an external antenna plug on the end.

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Funny you mention the CF-25. Mine has a WaveLAN built in and uses the third PCMCIA slot.

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Reply 4 of 6, by Stiletto

Posted on 2016-01-28, 15:41

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Found a few of the threads I was thinking of:
16-bit PCMCIA Wireless with WPA?
Old PCI WIFI Card

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Reply 5 of 6, by brassicGamer

Posted on 2016-01-28, 20:14

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+1 on the Orinoco tip. Although I've never used one myself, the Dell Truemobile 1150 was the version I used pretty much when WiFi had just become a consumer technology. The original (grey, M5757) Apple AirPort Base Station has an Orinoco card in it but I don't know how easy they are to find. Having written that I just looked on ebay and there's one in America for 5 bucks 'buy it now'.

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Reply 6 of 6, by popfuture

Posted on 2016-01-29, 04:06

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I like to use Ethernet to wifi converters for OSes with no modern wireless drivers. Just use the wired driver. This does not work well for public wifi though because you need an XP computer to run the app that configures the device, or at the very least use a web interface to select the wi-fi Network you want to connect to. These web interface configuration utilities aren't always the most intuitive to use if you know what I mean. Here is a link to one on Amazon:

IOGEAR Universal Ethernet to Wi-Fi N Adapter
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UAKCS6/ref=cm_s … d_NlUQwbY6WJB86

Another one:

Wifi Bridge Dongle Wireless
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005OIB6XI/ref=cm_s … d_.nUQwbQ4E13F1

The best thing about these is full WPA2 support in Windows 95! Even DOS!

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