Ben so your wife uses a USB wireless.
I use a USB on my desktop because it is easily movable if needed.
It is nice not having to open and place a card in.
Although that is a small doable.

USB for a laptop.
AS I said you can always use it some where else.
Also saves a slot.

Drawbacks for USB
They project out making an easy break off from unit.

Although modern computers have USB powers now through the bios.
Theese are designated for simple keyboard and a few others and sometimes a
little more.
They are different than a floppy which a a single function whose
functionality is
the same in bios boot as it in Windows
Not really OS dependent
USB drivers are multi functional and vary from the bios functions extremely

The functionality of a USB driver for use as wireless port is not only
driver dependent
but also OS depenedent.
Most USB if not all need WIN98SE or greater.

Cards will work on the OS below these for wireless
No need to go XP

That is the reason I would pick a card.


Now if laptops had a USB port that was parallel to the unit where breakage
was not a concern
and the OS was suitable than the USB would be my choice.








"Alan Johnston" wrote in message
news:TlD_f.3047$yg2.2014@trndny02...
Hey, ok!! Sounds good. So I would look for that specific number card and
would just replace the other card with it and load the OS drivers, I
assume. And then I'm all set.
Thanks a million

Al

"Ben Myers" ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net wrote in message
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Alan,

Your best bet is to replace the 3COM 10/100 PCMCIA card with a 802.11g
wifi
PCMCIA card with drivers to support the operating system you are using on
the
Armada.

An inferior choice is USB wifi, with a fairly clumsy external setup,
altho my
wife's notebook uses a Linksys 802.11b USB quite successfully... Ben
Myers

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:00:20 GMT, "Alan Johnston"
wrote:

I have an old Armada 1750 ( which was given to me) and I would like to
set
it up as a wireless laptop via internet connection with the Westell 327W.
Knowing a whole lot more about desktops, I have no idea what it is that I
need for this laptop to produce a wireless connection. I have 2 cards:
an
Adaptec SlimSCSI card in one slot, and a 3 Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC
card
in the other. Is it one of these that I replace with a special wireless
card or am I looking at something else that I need to do or replace.
Obviously I don't have a clue. Can someone point me in the right
direction?
I would appreciate it very much. Thanks,
Al