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Solved Looking For a Wireless Card For Windows 95

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I’ve looked on the site and all I seem to find are notebook cards that are compatible with WIN95. I have, in addition to my old 286, a Pentium II 450 with a gig of ram, that I would like to revert to Windows 95. Wireless would be perfect but I know it’s rather difficult to find anything that works. Are there any suggestions? It seems a USB adapter is out of the question so are there any cards that I could use? I also have a copy of Windows ME that I would consider using but I really want to use 95 if at all possible. And yes, I know I can use XP…but just like playing my old 5.25 games on my 286, there is something inherently nostalgic about using 95 to play my games from the 90’s on. And the kids think I’m stupid for using my “old fogey” computer (despite liking the 286…irony huh?).

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      I use a Netgear MA401 wireless card in my Gateway Solo P3C (R0) from early 1996.

      It works under Open or 64/128-bit WEP security.

      This is what the interface looks like looks like: http://sdfox7.com/win95/NETGEAR.BMP

      The wireless card is the sole reason the laptop runs Windows 95 B instead of the original 4.00.950 it came with (or “A” with SP1 installed). I don’t like “C” because it includes the desktop active update along with bloated IE 4.0.

      Windows 95 B from 1996 has many refinements and many electronic devices require this minimum OS instead of the original.

      It is a 16-bit non-Cardbus PCMCIA card that works on a vanilla install of Windows 95, does not require any Cardbus drivers or updates as long as it is Windows 95 B from 1996. It’s basically plug-and-play, Windows 95 will detect the card once you plug it in. I’ve been using this card for around 10 years with no issues.

      They’re available on eBay sporadically so try to get one if you get the opportunity. I don’t recommend Cardbus cards because they are very tricky to get working under Windows 95 and NT 4.0, BIOS interrupt conflicts, etc.

      http://www.ebay.com/sch/Computers-Tablets-Networking-/58058/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=ma401

      If the seller does not include the CD you can download the drivers from here: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/MA401/MA401%20Driver%20Version%202.6%20(for%20Windows%2095%20Only).zip or my archive http://sdfox7.com/win95/MA401CD.ZIP

      http://sdfox7.com

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