Early Vid: PCMCIA Cards in Linksys Routers?
Added 2024-04-24 19:12:57 +0000 UTCI had heard a long time ago about PCMCIA wi-fi cards lurking inside some early routers and decided to take a look. Sure enough... I found one!
We'll try to get it working on Windows 7 and some old Ubuntu distros, with some success.
Goes live on the channel Friday!
Comments
nothing too painful yet 😂
clabretro
2024-05-02 21:30:50 +0000 UTCOh ... oh dear. Looks like everyone on YouTube found this video. I apologize on behalf of humanity in advance—you're probably drowning in dumb insults. :\
Mac Folklore Radio
2024-05-02 20:53:54 +0000 UTCthanks! yeah basically same here... I use PC Card and PCMCIA interchangeably throughout the video but really I mostly refer to them as PCMCIA
clabretro
2024-04-27 18:07:10 +0000 UTCAlso these videos are my favourite part of my Saturday morning routine, so thanks so much for making them. I saved this one for Saturday this week, and it's been perfect.
Liquorist
2024-04-27 17:02:16 +0000 UTCI can only speak for myself, but I never witnessed the "PC Card" branding - it was all PCMCIA in my neck of the woods, clear through 2000.
Liquorist
2024-04-27 17:01:34 +0000 UTCoh that is awesome! i'll have to keep an eye out if I can find one for cheap haha
clabretro
2024-04-25 22:36:48 +0000 UTCLooks like there's plenty on ebay (bit overpriced at 50 bucks if you ask me) - this way instead of taking apart an access point you could build one haha
Christian Kündig
2024-04-25 20:33:56 +0000 UTCI figured it out. it was the ZyWALL 10W, nice illustrations at https://web.archive.org/web/20240425203053/http://download.from.zyxel.ru/download/71f87647-e6b0-4715-8e92-31bd4aaa5901/ZyWALL10W_v3-62_QuickStartGuide.pdf To extend with Wifi, you would buy a ZyAir PC Card (just a regular 802.11b PCMCIA card) - which itself was modular enough that you could chose to replace the antenna sticking out of the PC card for something longer range from the ZyAIR ZyAIR EXT-10x Antenna line, see https://web.archive.org/web/20240425202310/https://www.studerus.ch/de/support/download/57778
Christian Kündig
2024-04-25 20:33:32 +0000 UTCThat'd be really sweet to hunt one down with an actual user-accessible port, I was thinking about that while I took this one apart haha.
clabretro
2024-04-25 02:14:23 +0000 UTCMaybe this was a modem that could be extended to be a access point? obviously the lack of a proper antenna must have been an issue…
Christian Kündig
2024-04-24 22:59:32 +0000 UTCI vaguely remembering having a Zyxel access point around 2001-03 which actually had a pcmcia card slot with a card in there exposed (so you could pull it out, but I dont think I knew what for). Cant find it on google though :(
Christian Kündig
2024-04-24 22:35:07 +0000 UTChaha I have that CIB one and a loose one. haven't decided exactly how I want to mess around with them yet
clabretro
2024-04-24 20:11:38 +0000 UTCNo way! I just saw you flash the game adapter on screen towards the end of the video! The WGA11B, I just picked up 4 of these recently off of ebay to mess around with hahaha
JesseTheStig
2024-04-24 20:04:05 +0000 UTCHa very nice! I *think* this one is almost the same as the consumer cards, just with the weird daughter board thing for mounting. Hopefully I'll be able to hunt down old enough drivers (and might need an older computer).
clabretro
2024-04-24 19:59:51 +0000 UTCI did this with a U.S. Robotics 802.11b access point back in the early-00s. The card in the access point was the same as a standalone product they sold and it did work with the stock drivers. What a time.
Aaron the Tinkerer
2024-04-24 19:38:26 +0000 UTCThe stack keeps growing and growing hahaha, really looking forward to watching this video! I can already tell it's going to be great!
JesseTheStig
2024-04-24 19:14:33 +0000 UTC
