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Wifi PCI adapter Under Dos/WFW3.11?

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First post, by Hamby

Posted on 2018-04-11, 20:00

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Awhile back I picked up a DLink wireless PCI card.
I've a K62 - 300 mhz system with ISA and PCI expansion slots which I have DOS / Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on.
Currently I'm using a PCI wired network card in the system, and I'm wondering if the DLink can be made to work and connect to my wireless network?

Has anybody tried getting wifi to work under DOS and/or WFW?

Reply 1 of 6, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2018-04-12, 03:11

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I'd recommend getting a cheap (DD-WRT or OpenWRT compatible) router that you can bridge with instead.

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Reply 2 of 6, by Jo22

Posted on 2018-04-12, 06:16

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I second that.
If the PC is stationary, there's little reason to go trough all the trouble of getting a PCI WiFi card to work in DOS.

It's easier to just go wih one of the ethernet cards Windows 3.11 supports from the start or are known drivers for it.
Then, all it's needed is a cheap LAN-WiFi (aka WLAN) adapters/bridges. With a power bank, they can also be used portable.

If you really need native WiFi support, you *could* also use one of older the PCMCIA WiFi cards (do they WPA already?).
Afaik, they can also be used in a PCMCIA-ISA adapter. Haven't tried myself, though.

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Reply 3 of 6, by oeuvre

Posted on 2018-04-12, 13:02

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I used to use a Linksys E2500 for this purpose. Like gdjacobs said, DD-WRT + client bridge.

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Reply 4 of 6, by dionb

Posted on 2018-04-12, 13:22

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Fourth that...

To be able to interface with a modern network (WPA security, preferably WPA2 with AES encryption) you need at least WiFi-g.That's IEEE802.11g-2003. Note the year... not very DOS/WFW-friendly.

Anything older than that and you're stuck with WEP encryption, which is literally worse than no encryption (scripts to crack within seconds available everywhere) and usually also 802.11b, which is not only slow, it also forces more modern devices to talk in a way the old crap can follow, leading to a huge slowdown of the rest of your network too.

Reply 5 of 6, by stamasd

Posted on 2018-04-14, 11:30

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I once got a whole lot of some cheap Chinese mini-routers (WT3020, about half the size of a pack of cigarettes) which I installed OpenWRT on; I have about 10 of them. I use them to bridge devices that have only wired LAN to my home wifi. Works flawlessly.

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Reply 6 of 6, by oeuvre

Posted on 2018-04-15, 13:47

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can find compatible DDWRT routers for $10-12 shipped on ebay easily

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