Question : Problem: Old computer, new home wireless network

See http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Q_21243834.html before responding, please.

Update: I've acquired a DLink DWK-G510 card. Computer is an HP VL5/166. Even added some RAM to it. New Win2K (not an upgrade from Win98SE).

DLink software installs fine. Installed the card, no New Hardware Wizard. Attempted manual installation of new hardware, and while I can find the driver, I still get nothing in the box that says "Select the hardware from this list".

Question isn't about the wireless card(s), but about the HP. Does anyone have ANY insight into why it doesn't want to see the wireless card(s), and what, if anything, can be done about it short of either running cable all over the house or buying more hardware?

Thanks!

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Answer : Problem: Old computer, new home wireless network

The HP tech manual shows that - depending upon the cpu speed and thus the multiplier - they run the ISA bus at 7.5 or 8.25 or 8.33 MHz.  I wonder if the 166MHz CPU (8.25MHz) is pushing the PIIX3 is out of spec?

The PCI stuff is here - http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/conventional/conventional_pci/ - but I don't understand PCI well enough to really comprehend it.  IIRC, 2.2 was issued to fix some rough edges in the 2.1 spec that were found because of vendor/hardware incompatibilities...

Unfortunately you are probably back into the days of voodo.  It might be that (once upon a time), the vendor had an instrumented driver that could have reported all the details of the hand-shake.  But they'll never release that.  And all it would show is that the two are incompatible. HP lists 2 NICs in their manual and probably didn't certify any others.  
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