Windows 95 and Wireless network

Gareth

Gareth

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Windows 2000 (Windows 95) and Wireless network

Ok, its a very out of date operating system, ill give you that :P but I have a laptop (166MHz/80MB RAM/20GB HDD) which is running Windows 95, I have a Compaq Wireless Card and that supports Windows 95/98/2000/XP.

I can't seem to get the software to connect to the network, so is there any 3rd party wireless managers which supports Windows 9x as I can easily upgrade to Windows 98. If my disk works, I can also upgrade to Windows 2000 if required, but would rather keep a 9x OS on it because of the speed of the laptop.
 
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I don't know any off my head, but I find a lot of valuable stuff on Softpedia. Just my 2 cents.
Did you install the drivers correctly? Usually the WiFi cards come with a manager that installs with the driver.
 
Yep, the manager which comes with the card is useless to be honest, it works fine on XP's wireless manager (zero config) but it drops connection with the Compaq client. Im not getting any luck on their also for a wireless client which supports W95, so I am guessing it will have to be upgraded to Windows 2000 =/
 
So, have you actually successfully installed the wireless manager for the card on the windows 95 machine? I have an old 98 machine at work that has a linksys pci card in it. It will work but the problem with that card is that it only supports WEP security. I'm pretty sure when the card came out WPA and WPA2 didn't exist yet. In either case, it turned out the be my card's lack of support for the security I was running that was causing my troubles rather than the connection software.
 
Ive tried WEP/WPA and even unsecured (not that it makes much of a difference when there's no houses around) and nothing has worked =/ The card works on XP and thats as good as I can get it it to do. The laptop may I add is running Windows 2000 Professional now.
 
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