This is gonna be a bit long winded, but you asked! BTW, I'm a Systems
Administrator and I've worked with many different kinds of pcmcia cards.
What I personally recommend, if you want to stay w/ hard wired connections
is a non-dongle pcmcia card. I have experience w/ a linksys 10/100 +56k
modem pcmcia card and it worked great. I also have lots of experience w/
dongle type cards and those were mostly bad experiences so I stay away from
those. Also any of
these<http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=588>should
work just fine and have gotten quite cheap! Sounds like you like the
hard wired connection. Have you thought about wireless? It's the same size
card as a 10/100 pcmcia card, and there are tons of open wifi networks
available virtually anywhere you go. Just a thought. If you have any
questions, feel free to pm me.

On 3/9/07, neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you need a different driver to make your hardware work under the
> new OS, check out:
>
> http://driversguide.com/
>
> there may be some hacked or newer drivers there.
>
> you have to become a member, but this site may help.
>
> Cheer,s
>
> Neil.
>
> On 3/9/07, Pensioner <al_knoll@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > In my various travels about the land of the free or the almost free, I
> seem
> > to happen upon free high-speed internet connections (hard wired)  Having
> > temporarily deserted the comfy coziness of W98SE to wade through the
> layers
> > of unnecessary 'features' in W2K SP2 I note that my entire collection of
>
> > PCMCIA (PC-CARD) NIC devices no longer have drivers that work with XP.
> > Thanks I suppose to the relentless pursuit of being out jonesed by the
> > rabble from Redmond.  So who in the lan of van has recommendations for
> > hardwired 10/100BT PCMCIA devices.  Dongly or not dongly.
> >
> > I need particular devices and suppliers and personal experiences
> here.  FOAF
> > won't work.  And although the lure is touted, fruit flavored computing
> runs
> > against the grain in my case.  Easier I suppose to just get a new dog,
> NOT!
> >
>

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