Wifi Card

I'm trying to get my laptop enabled on Wifi and would like to purchase a wifi
card. The laptop is about 3 years old and has what looks like a facility to
store a card in the left hand side of the machine - like a small drawer that
I am assuming I just slip the WiFi card into. My question is, do I just
need a Wifi Card or should I get an adapter as well? I have been looking
around and have found a Belkin Wireless 54g laptop card and also a belkin
wireless 54g usb networking adapter. Do I need both And if not, which one do
I need? And..how difficult is it to set up?? (the info I have read says its
easy but I'm not so sure..) Please help
--
Jane

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:22:25 -0800, =?Utf-8?B?SmFuZSBBc2hl?=
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>I'm trying to get my laptop enabled on Wifi and would like to purchase a wifi
>card. The laptop is about 3 years old and has what looks like a facility to
>store a card in the left hand side of the machine - like a small drawer that
>I am assuming I just slip the WiFi card into. My question is, do I just
>need a Wifi Card or should I get an adapter as well? I have been looking
>around and have found a Belkin Wireless 54g laptop card and also a belkin
>wireless 54g usb networking adapter. Do I need both And if not, which one do
>I need? And..how difficult is it to set up?? (the info I have read says its
>easy but I'm not so sure..) Please help

The slot you are referring to is likely a PC-Card slot.
The main thing to look out for: Those cards come in 2 distict
flavours: so called PCMCIA and CARDBUS.

If your laptop supports Cardbus, anything goes :-)

If however, your PC only supports PCMCIA you need to find a wifi
card that does not require Cardbus. (Hard to find. In the
second-hand sections only, I'm affraid.)

If your laptop supports USB 2.0 then using an usb wifi dongle
certainly is an option. (But then again: if your laptop only
supports USB 1.1, many usb dongles won't operate properly.)

--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

Hi
If the laptop is regular production device and only 3 years old any of the
Brands 802.11g cards that are sold for Laptop would work (no adaptor needed)
Look for cards from Linksys, D-Link, Netgear, Buffalo.
Some cards are on sale and can be found for very little money.
As an example this week CompUSA few cards starting at $9 after rebate.
http://www.compusa.com/adproducts/pr...reless_PC_Card
Jack (MVP-Networking).


"Jane Ashe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:B5EFCB2A-1D84-4C14-81C1-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm trying to get my laptop enabled on Wifi and would like to purchase a
> wifi
> card. The laptop is about 3 years old and has what looks like a facility
> to
> store a card in the left hand side of the machine - like a small drawer
> that
> I am assuming I just slip the WiFi card into. My question is, do I just
> need a Wifi Card or should I get an adapter as well? I have been looking
> around and have found a Belkin Wireless 54g laptop card and also a belkin
> wireless 54g usb networking adapter. Do I need both And if not, which one
> do
> I need? And..how difficult is it to set up?? (the info I have read says
> its
> easy but I'm not so sure..) Please help
> --
> Jane