What PCMCIA card in a Dell Laptop running XP will work with Airport Express

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What PCMCIA card in a Dell Laptop running XP will work with Airport Express

I have an old Dell Latitude Pentium 3 with an old Netgear MA-401 wireless PCMCIA wifi card for it that will not connect to my Airport Express home network. It works fine with non-Apple wireless routers.

What card can I get for this PC that will work with Apple's Airport?

not counting work over the years more than 20 Macs and 3 PCs, Mac OS X (10.5.7), iMacs, TiBook. 1st-4th Generation iPods, some iBooks, Newton, parade of peeseez

Posted on Jul 2, 2009 9:52 PM

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Jan Hedlund

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Jul 4, 2009 8:08 AM in response to dgd

Hi,

According to this document, the MA401 is an 802.11b card. It should be compatible with an AirPort Express.

The MA401 apparently does not support WPA. Have you checked the security settings? This web page could perhaps be of interest to you.

Jan

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dgd Author

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Jul 4, 2009 8:51 AM in response to Jan Hedlund

Thanks Jan. I'd found the references you gave in my past searches. I even got a new card from NetGear. It just will not lock onto the Airport no matter what channel I use. I tried an Express and an Extreme. It locks onto non-Apple wireless fine though. And it mostly can't see the Apple network when I refresh the list. Even with no WEP it won't usually lock on.

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