Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:

> 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).

It's not the driver, it's the supplicant.

> >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?

How much do you pay for your OS updates?

> >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.

Lots of cards support WPA when used with Buffalo's Client Manager 2
under Windows 2K, and Win98SE - according to the readme. D-Link DWL-650+
and Belkin F5D7010 cards do (under W2K) for a start.

> >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.

If it doesn't fit, it's because the voltage (5/3.3) doesn't match.