Hi,
I'm cleaning up an old laptop (a Toshiba Portege) to give away to a friend who needs one, mainly just for web browsing. I have Windows 2000 Pro on it, and it seems to run reasonably well (ok, don't laugh :(), and I want to provide a (preferably 11g) WIFI PCMCIA card with it, just so I know that it's all working beforehand.
So far, I've tested with an old Orinoco Silver (11B and WEP 64 bit only) and a Dlink DWL-G650 (11B/G and WEP/WPA).
I'd prefer to include an 11G card that supports at least WPA, so I was originally expecting to use the Dlink, but when I was testing with it, I noticed that when it was installed, CPU utilization was stuck at 100%.
I did some research, and apparently the Dlink installer installs an app named "Reg.exe" in startup that isn't needed, so I removed that from startup.
After I did that, CPU utilization wasn't nailed at 100% anymore, but it is still high... probably on the order of 80+%.
So now, I'm wondering, does anyone know of any PCMCIA card (esp. with Win2K) that would be less of a load on the system, CPU utilization-wise.
Thanks, Jim