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realitychek1956
 Post subject: IBM Thinkpad 365XD WIRELESS ?
PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:20 am 
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Greetings all.......this IBM 365XD (type 2625 DEE) laptop is old.....no usb ports. I did manage years ago to install Win98SE. It works great...but i'd like to go wireless. On the side are two slots for the PCMCIA cards. One slot currently has a Megahertz model XJ2288 modem card in it. Does anyone have suggestions as to a wireless card that will fit this laptop with this OS....? Thanks.
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mnowell69
 Post subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 365XD WIRELESS ?
PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:07 am 
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try searching ebay etc for an IBM HIGH RATE WIRELESS LAN PCMCIA CARD. (FRU 22P4592) I bought one for $5 on ebay and it works on win95 upwards. Haven't tried it with win 3.11 yet. Drivers are available from Lenovo website and so are installation instructions.

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Jax184
 Post subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 365XD WIRELESS ?
PostPosted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:12 am 
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That card was built by Lucent as the Orinoco. There's a gazillion different cards which are all identical internally but have different branding on them.

http://www.oreillynet.com/wireless/2000/11/03/graphics/wavelan_card.jpg
http://www.bizsyscon.com/pics/ORINOCO_SILVER_CARD.jpg
http://www.isp-planet.com/img/fixedwireless/2001/Orinoco_card.jpg
http://www.tomsnetworking.de/fileadmin/tng/content/artikel/j2004/m06/t24/proxim_pccgold.jpg
http://www.penmachine.com/techie/images_pb1400/dell_lucent-top.jpg
http://files.wifi.ee/kaardid.jpg
http://www.labo-microsoft.org/articles/web/matos/Default_fichiers/image003.jpg

Those are all the SAME CARD.
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mnowell69
 Post subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 365XD WIRELESS ?
PostPosted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:17 am 
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COOL. Just keeping it in the family so to speak :)

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realitychek1956
 Post subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 365XD WIRELESS ?
PostPosted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:01 pm 
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Thanks everyone for the replies. As mentioned there is alot of cards out there....i just wasnt sure which one would work. I appreciate the time and effort on this. I'll post later on the progress.....i should have a card soon.
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ozzymud
 Post subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 365XD WIRELESS ?
PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:01 am 
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http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/PCMCIA_slot wrote:
The PCMCIA slot is a 8 or 16bit PC Card slot. It is not compatible with the newer CardBus adapters.


So any older 16bit wireless that has drivers for your OS should work.

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