Wireless cardbus 802.1g

Tha alternate route, of course, is Windows 2000. All the bells and whistles
of XP (USB support, lots of drivers etc) but none of the "new look and feel"
bloat. Depending on the cost, I might buy a copy of eBay and a cheaper
(maybe) wireless card if the only NT cabale wireless cards prove to be
expensive. I have an old copy of NT 4 so that's what I've used thus far...

My other suspicion is that an NT wireless card might not support WPA. OK,
nothing's "secure" but its better than WEP.

Paul DS.

Paul D Smith wrote:
> Tha alternate route, of course, is Windows 2000. All the bells and whistles
> of XP (USB support, lots of drivers etc) but none of the "new look and feel"
> bloat.

Had looked at alternative OSes - but NT4 still wins hands down - an 85MB
footprint for a base NT4 install vs probably 500-600MB for Win2k or 1GB+ for XP
(my God, what could you possibly put in an OS to make it so FAT) is a big factor
in NT4's favour.

The machine came 'pre-installed' with XP Home (YUK!) and ran like a dog !!! I
took great delight in executing the command "gdisk 1 /del /all" from a DOS
prompt and watching as XP got flushed down the toilet

I already had a brand new (still shrink wrapped) NT4 Workstation to install. It
went really well. Have since added all the necessary Toshiba hardware drivers,
the IONetworks USB stack (works like a charm for USB mass storage devices and
USB web cam, which is all I need or want) and the standard patches to enable
shutdown after power off - the whole thing works like a bought one now, and I'm
delighted with the result.

I've been watching the eBay going price for Win2k - seems to be around AU$120
for a copy, which for a 6 year old (now in extended support phase) OS is IMHO
utterly INSANE !

> My other suspicion is that an NT wireless card might not support WPA. OK,
> nothing's "secure" but its better than WEP.

I had wondered about this point myself. Considering the newer encryption
techniques are 'post NT4' - depending on how the security model is implemented -
it may not be possible to do on NT4 I'm NO expert on security matters and
how they are performed inside the 'inards' of the OS, so again I think we may
have to adopt a 'wait and see' attitude.

All the best,

Calvin.

....snip...

> the IONetworks USB stack (works like a charm for USB mass storage devices
and
> USB web cam, which is all I need or want)...

Umm, never heard of this. Off to have a look.

Paul DS

"Paul D Smith" <news.DeleteThis@gershenson-smith.org.nospam> wrote in message
news:443e98e0@212.67.96.135...
> ...snip...
>
> > the IONetworks USB stack (works like a charm for USB mass storage
devices
> and
> > USB web cam, which is all I need or want)...
>
> Umm, never heard of this. Off to have a look.
>
> Paul DS

OK I've looked but which of the various drivers do I download? Are they the
ones identified as "Edgeport, Rapidport, Watchport Sensors, USB Plus
Series"?

Thanks,
Paul DS.

Hi Paul,

Have a look here: http://nt4ref.zcm.com.au/usb.htm for a full rundown on USB
functionality on NT4

Calvin.

Calvin,

Thanks for the USB link. Having delved long and hard into the various
manufacturers, it seems that the ONLY wireless PCMCIA card I can find is the
Cisco Aironet cards (340/350, not the CB20A cards though!). BUT these only
support WEP with Windows NT.

Paul DS