First post, by mhoney71
Hi everyone,
Love this forum and have been following it for a few months now, so I thought it was time to contribute. Just wanted to share something I found out tonight while trying to make my Windows 98se laptop stable with a wireless pcmcia cardbus adapter that supports WPA2. I started down this road because my ThinkPad A30 doesn't have wireless built-in, so I searched Ebay for a wifi card that not only supports Windows 98, but also WPA2. Seems there are lots of choices if you only need/want WEP encryption, but the choices for WPA2 are slim. I purchased a TP-Link TL-WN610G which works ok, but the drivers are CRAP! So I picked up a SMC Model SMCWCB-G which not only turns out to be the exact same card, but has nice stable drivers. It appears SMC used the TP-Link drivers as a base but made some tweaks that make it much more stable. So the bonus to all this is that the TP-Link TL-WN610G works just fine with the SMC SMCWCB-G modded drivers.
Not sure how the admins feel about uploading ISO images to posts or linking to other sites, so I will just say send me a PM if you want either of the driver cd images. If I hear it's ok to do the link or upload I will edit the post.