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Wireless card for OLD Laptop

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Blayze

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I've got a old laptop here... K6-2 350Mhz, 160 MB RAM, 4 Gig HD, Windows 2000 SP4.

What I'm wanting to do is get it up and running to basically check email. I really need a wireless card for it if its possible. I know Best Buy has a Dynex card for $30ish right now. I just need something inexpensive that will work.

The machine runs Windows 2000 on a wired network surprisingly well, but I'm not sure how it will behave when I load up the wireless software that comes with the wireless cards.

Any suggestions? or am I basically just wasting money trying to get this old laptop running again on a wireless network?
 
Assuming you have a PCMCIA slot, I see no problem. When I used a PCMCIA 802.11g card it didn't use a lot of resources. USB is another option, providing you have USB 2, 1.1 is too slow.

HTH
Hermit
 
Sound like you have Compaq notebook right? In that case I bought Airlink Plus wireless G card for my old notebook (AMD K6-2 333 160MB memory and 4GB HD) it was able to wireless flawlessly with my Linksys router. It costs me less than 20 buck.
 
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