Wireless cardbus 802.1g

Paul D Smith wrote:

> 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"?

Have a read of my article at http://nt4ref.zcm.com.au/usb.htm

I'd recommend you start with the V2.35 drivers from here
http://ftp1.us.dell.com/utility/R62200.EXE (these were released specifically for
DELL systems, but in fact work on virtually all hardware just fine)

This stack seems to be stable and reliable and is a 'known good' starting point.
The V2.55 drivers I also mention in the article may also be worth
investigating if you feel so inclined.

Officially speaking, you are not supposed to be using these drivers unless you
own qualifying IONetworks hardware (a cam, a card etc..) but I doubt at this
stage they will really mind much. The 'DELL' release I use was/is freely posted
on the DELL website with no restrictions on it's access.

Calvin.

Paul D Smith wrote:
> Thanks for the USB link.

No problem - I hope the info is of some use to you

> 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.

I had the awful feeling that this would be the case. I see the Aironet 340/350
are also at 'end-of-life' status with Cisco and are no longer being sold or
supported. I think I'm just going to have to accept that Wireless networking on
my new playtoy NT4 Laptop is out of the realms of the possible A pity, but
I'm sure I can grin and bear it on a wired network connection !

The satellite 1830 actually had an inbuilt 'wireless card' option, but my
particular purchase didn't have it fitted I also suspect that attempting to
obtain one now, at this late date, may be impossible, or at least ridiculously
expensive !

I've had a similar problem here I've wrestling with for the last couple of
weeks. the laptop only has a TEAC CD-ROM reader installed atm. There were
options at purchase for the Satellite 1830 for a CD-RW writer or DVD-ROM
Reader/CD-RW writer combo drive.

Toshiba tech support have tried to tell me that only their 'sanctioned' model
drives can be installed - other brands/models will not function. My
understanding of the situation is that the form-factor / interface etc.. for
optical drives on laptops is fairly standardised and many models/brands should
in fact physically fit - whether or not I can get them to function is another
story however.

I'm leaning towards the (very pricey - AU$380 incl tax) option of sourcing the
right drive through my local Toshiba agent (it's a Matsushita UJDA-720 that
Toshiba say is the right model for this laptop) - at least it is brand new,
comes with a 12 month warranty and will definitely work. Oh what fun this all is !

Calvin.