Thinkpad 600 & PCMCIA Wifi

Older ThinkPads.. from the 600, the 7xx, the iSeries, 300, 500, the Transnote and, of course, the 701
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Thinkpad 600 & PCMCIA Wifi

#1 Post by really » Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:11 am

Hello, I recently have purchased a Thinkpad 600 off of ebay.

It has 192 MB of Ram, 266 Mhz CPU.

I plan to install Windows XP.

What sort of PCMCIA Wifi card will work with such old hardware? The oldest D-Links I can find say they need at least 300 Mhz.

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Re: Thinkpad 600 & PCMCIA Wifi

#2 Post by paul*robertson » Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:28 pm

Hi
Welcome to the forum. What model is it 600 or 600E. What do you plan to use it for.
X61 and (retired)600x.

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Re: Thinkpad 600 & PCMCIA Wifi

#3 Post by really » Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:54 pm

paul*robertson wrote:Hi
Welcome to the forum. What model is it 600 or 600E. What do you plan to use it for.
I believe it is the 600. I just ordered it off of ebay and the seller stated it was a 600 but there is no way to be certain of its model until it arrives.

I plan to use it for reading and writing email in coffeeshops.

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Re: Thinkpad 600 & PCMCIA Wifi

#4 Post by harshbarj » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:58 am

Just about any wifi card should work. The 600 has a 32-bit CardBus slot and that is what is still used today.

So something like this should work great (and is dirt cheap!)
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=F5D9010&cat=NET

With 192mb of ram it will run xp slowly. If you can find 2 sticks of 128mb pc66 I would suggest upgrading it. Or go with windows 2000 and leave the ram as is.

And I doubt it is a 600e as they shipped with 300mhz processors on up.
Thinkpad t60
1.83Ghz Core Duo ---- 3gb ram
320gb hdd ---- Ati x1300 64mb
1400X1050 lcd ---- Windows Xp Pro

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