At 07:00 PM 11/30/2001 -0500, I wrote:
>Looking for suggestions on PCMCIA (PC card) ethernet cards to use in my laptop
>to connect to my CT ethernet network. The doc on K1TTT's website has a
>little info about using them from I4UFH but not any specific suggestions about
>brands with DOS drivers that people have successfully used.
>
>Sent direct to me and I'll summarize for the group.
Thanks for the helpful information! Here are the responses:
From William Liporace NA2NA na2na@vqsl.net
To use a PCMCIA card with a laptop, you need the DOS card drivers for the
laptop and the PCMCIA card. This will allow CT to use the NIC via DOS.
You can go to any web site and check out what you need.
I believe I have around card here. I do not know if I have DOS Drivers
handy. I may even have a 3com. The laptop manufacture's WEB site may have
the info you need. If you need any help let me know. I will have a few
questions :-)
From Zoli Pitman HA1AG ha1ag@compuserve.com
See www.qsl.net/ha1ag -> SO2R description. You will find what I use there
with links to the products themselves.
>From Rick Dougherty NQ4I@compuserve.com
I use a LinkSys ethernet card (Abt $39) in my Toshiba Satellite 115CS (Older
laptop)
Pentium 100 mhz and it works great with DOS drivers(Packet)
From Hank Kohl K8DD k8dd@arrl.net
I guess the first requirement is price!
And the second one (and most important) is the availability of packet drivers.
I use an EXP ThinLAN 10 MHz card and a Xircom 10/100 MHz.
The EXP came with packet drivers. Had to go to Xircom tech support for the
drivers for Xircom.
Those are the only two I've used here with good luck.
From Dan Karg WR0DK dkarg@mn.mediaone.net
This is not strictly related to PCMCIA cards, but I have successfully used an
older LinkSys "Pocket Ethernet Adapter plus' Ethernet adaptor that plugs into
the parallel port of my laptop. It has both coax (thinnet) and RJ-45 (10BaseT)
connectors.
It is not quite as slick of a solution as a PCMCIA card, but it will work on
any computer and you don't get wound up in PCMCIA card drivers and all of
that under DOS.
I'm not sure these are still available, I picked mine up a few years ago on
of the retailers clearance tables.
From Dennis NB1B NB1B@mediaone.net
At VB2V we used 4 different models of laptops, all with the same PCMCIA
card. The card used was a Linksys "Combo PCMCIA Ethernet Card", the box
says it is the Model EC2T. It is available at CompUSA for normally about
$40, but I picked up two of them several months ago for $20 each when they
were on sale.
Each comes with a disk of drivers, an enabler for the socket driver, and a
dongle that will accept either a CAT 5 cable or a BNC coax plug. They all
worked with CT and K1TTT's ethernet drivers; time from the box to the
network was about 30 min per laptop.
I can recommend these, and I know they work with at least 4 different types
of laptops.
>From Brian McGinness N3OC n3oc@wirelessinc.com
LINKSYS! All the various linksys PCMCIA ethernet cards have working
DOS enablers and packet drivers, which you have to have to run the card
under DOS with CT! And they are only $39...
I suggest to anyone to avoid the hassle of finding both the dos
enabler and packer driver to buy the linksys card, either the 10mb or the
10/100 one.
Most of the V26B lan uses thiy type of card.
Available at compusa, etc.
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