On 18 Jul 2006 at 3:40, Wayne Johnson wrote: > You must be looking at older versions of the cards because all the > newer versions DO support WPA & probably WPA2 under 9x.
You've actually tested this? I looked through the documentation on the linksys website for serveral of the cards, both newer and older, it many cases the manual didn't even mention WPA and if it did, it refered to XP SP2. > FWIW according to Linksys tier 2 TS 256 meg is not enough for their > 802.11 N pc cards for systems with only 256 meg altho I've been using > a WPC54g v2 card 1st under 98 then under Xp that does supt WPA & a > newer WPC54g card that supt WPA2 on a 256 meg laptop for years. You don't think that's a bit odd? Requiring more than 256mb just to run a wireless network card? That's crazy talk! ;-) > Heck if one has bought both a router & a WIFI card from Linksys > recently & you press the Cisco button they'll configure the wireless for you. In this case I don't know what router they have at home, it was setup by someone else. I gave them the speech about unsecured wifi and that it must be setup with at least WPA and at least a 16 random character passphrase. > Please go to the Linksys website for more details. I have, I went to their knowledge base and searched on wpa, I also picked some wifi cards at random online, and read their documents. See above. Example go to support > easy answers, type in "wpa windows 98 support" in the search field, you'll get 303 pages of results, scrolling through the first half dozen and clicking on a few interesting looking results gives no info on WPA setup and use under 98, lots of xp stuff though > I did miss your supplemental post saying that this was for a desktop > system as I've been talking about PCMCIA cards for laptops but many > desktops use PCI to PCMCIA adapters anyway or at least they use to. > Have you thought of going USB? Even most of the newer ones supt WPA > with 9x. I hear people say this, but most of the ones I've seen don't support it, plus any that do, only work on 98SE, not 95 or 98FE. > Heck, it's getting harder & harder to find local mom/pop > shops that supt 9x at all. Many of them in this area will tell you to > upgrade to Xp before they'll even talk to you & I'm getting a slew of Pretty sad, but hey makes more money for Bill Gates. > calls as a result. I just put it to them in economic terms but many > times the reply I get is I only have X amount of dollars can we do > this or that or not? So what am I to reply to that? I fix them up & > send them on their way. Exactly. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
