[nycbug-talk] PCMCIA wireless card source?

[Jay Savage]

On 5/13/05, Tom Derylo <bbong718 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have an old (PII/333) thinkpad that boots FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
> > SuSE.  I'm trying to find a supported wireless card for it, but
> > everything I'm seeing in the stores is CardBus.  Does anyone know of
> > someplace local I can find some a Type II b/g card that's upported
> > under at least one of the OSes?  Next step is on line, but I'd rather
> > just grab it on lunch sometime if I can.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I recently had some woes with my Toshiba Tecra 802.11b/g PCMCIA Card on FreeBSD
> and with sound too, but got it to work with ndis driver, using Windows
> Drivers really cool
> if you ask me, you should try to get it working that way.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
> 
> If you need futher help on getting this to work, let me know, took me
> a while to figure
> it out too, and get the right .INF and .SYS Files from Windows. I have
> the LinkSYS Wireless-G WPC54G ver.4 Adapter.
> 
> Good Luck
> 
> //tom

Tom,

Thanks for the pointer, I'm sure it'll come in handy later.  But the
issue right now isn't finding a driver for a card I have, or trying to
get ndis going--let's hope it doesn't come to that.  My issue at the
moment is that I have an old machine with a 16-bit PCMCIA interface,
and all I can find in the stores are 32-bit CardBus cards.  I was
hoping someone on this list might know someplace local (preferrable
Manhattan) that still stocks Type II cards.

Thanks,

Jay