On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 21:44:04 +0100, Sally Thompson <me2@privacy.net>
wrote:

>It's a Belkin 802.11b/11 Mbps Wireless Notebook Network Card, Model F5D6020
>ver.2

Yep, no WPA drivers available (that I can find).

>Sorry, it was in my OP but has got snipped. It is a Compaq Armada M300.

Hmmm... PII/333MHz. It will probably run W2K or XP with 256 or
512MBytes of RAM. Perhaps an OS update might be a better way?

>Yes, it has a PCMCIA slot but the wireless PCMCIA card I have been trying
>(Belkin 802.11b/11 Mbps Wireless Notebook Network Card, Model F5D6020 ver.2)
>is not suitable since the Win98SE OS is not compatible with WPA.

Backwards. There's no compatibility issues. The problem is that
Belkin didn't see fit to include WPA support in this product. In XP,
it's part of the operating system.

The big problem(tm) you're going to have is finding a 16bit PCMCIA
card that supports WPA. There are a few (that I can't find), but most
are 32bit PC Card interfaces that won't fit or work. I'm not sure but
what I found with Google seems to indicate a 32bit PC Card slot.

>However, I
>assume that if I plug in a wired ethernet adaptor then that problem will go
>away. I'll look at the manual but I rather assume it is a 16 bit PCMCIA.

Just find a 32bit card and try to shove it in the slot. If it doesn't
fit, it's a 16 bit slot.

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