On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 01:55:14 +0200, hlexa@hotmail.com (Axel
Hammerschmidt) wrote in <1hjs4ph.1buk0nu166aq7kN%hlexa@hotmail.com>:

>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.

If there was a WPA supplicant, it would be included in what the vendor
calls the "device driver". Clever technical terms only serve to confuse
non-technical types.

>> >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?

Better 512 MB (or as close to that as practical).

>How much do you pay for your OS updates?

Presumably the same as everybody else. Your point?

>> 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.

True, but Jeff is essentially correct in that all Cardbus cards are 3.3
volt, and if the slot supports 3.3 volts, then it almost certainly
supports Cardbus. I don't know of a 3.3 volt slot that isn't Cardbus --
do you? (Both 3.3 volt and Cardbus were introduced in PC Card Standard
Release 5.0)

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