old 365CD ibm thinkpad issues

hello. i have come upon an old ibm 365cd thinkpad. it actually works pretty well, and I loaded win98se on it.

my question is this: how do i best get it on a high speed network? i tried a wireless linksys wpc54g pcmcia card and it won't power on. it has no usb ports.

there is an xjack 33.6 pcmcia modem in there that is working. do i just need an ethernet pcmcia card? does anyone know why the wireless card won't power up?

thanks.

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Originally Posted by mattyx

hello. i have come upon an old ibm 365cd thinkpad. it actually works pretty well, and I loaded win98se on it.

my question is this: how do i best get it on a high speed network? i tried a wireless linksys wpc54g pcmcia card and it won't power on. it has no usb ports.

there is an xjack 33.6 pcmcia modem in there that is working. do i just need an ethernet pcmcia card? does anyone know why the wireless card won't power up?

thanks.

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I *believe* thought not positive that the older models don't support the 32 bit pcmcia standard. I would check into that though.

I just found the specs for this

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you may be right. i can't find out what kind of pcmcia slot it has. hard to find specs. cant think of any other way to get it on network.....

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Originally Posted by Matridom

I *believe* thought not positive that the older models don't support the 32 bit pcmcia standard. I would check into that though.

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mattyx you must have cross posted, check above...

yes, i had found the specs, but the computer is showing 32 mb of ram, and has a 1 gig drive. it does have the cd-rom and the two type II slots.

infrared is working, believe it or not. that is pretty cool. for an old machine, this thing is not bad. if i could get a wireless network card or usb on it somehow, i'd be off to starbucks to surf.......

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Originally Posted by mattyx

you may be right. i can't find out what kind of pcmcia slot it has. hard to find specs. cant think of any other way to get it on network.....

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Originally Posted by mattyx

hello. i have come upon an old ibm 365cd thinkpad. it actually works pretty well, and I loaded win98se on it.

my question is this: how do i best get it on a high speed network? i tried a wireless linksys wpc54g pcmcia card and it won't power on. it has no usb ports.

there is an xjack 33.6 pcmcia modem in there that is working. do i just need an ethernet pcmcia card? does anyone know why the wireless card won't power up?

thanks.

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are you using the top or bottom slot? sometimes it matters.
you might make sure that it is not a cardbus(32 bit card).
otherwise check ebay for a usb pccard? i have seen 54mb g cards but not by linksys?

http://www.linksys.com/products/prod...cid=30&prid=92

Get one of these any you are in business (wired network only)

http://www.linksys.com/products/prod...id=36&prid=430

you should also be able to use this one for wireless.