Networking FreeDOS - WiFi

Overview

  WiFi/wireless networking works with FreeDOS and some network adapters.
  It seems to be limited to 802.11b cards with a maximum of 11 Mbps.
  Encryption is WEP, so the network will be insecure.
  Wireless devices connected via USB can not yet be used with FreeDOS.

Network cards that may work

  Cards that claim to have DOS drivers (no guarantees) are for
  instance:
  PCMCIA
    * Cisco Aironet 352 (CSCOAIRPCM352) 802.11b
    * Cisco Aironet 351 (AIR-PCM351-RF) 802.11b
    * Cisco Aironet 352 (AIRPCM352R)
    * Cisco Aironet 352 (AIRPCM352B)
    * Alvarion BreezeNET PRO.11 (511410)
    * Alvarion BreezeNET PRO.11 (511419)
    * Motorola spectrum24 LA 4111 (LA-4111-1000-US) 802.11b
    * Motorola Spectrum24 LA-3021 (LA3021102FB) 802.11
    * Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B (WPC2011BWWP100) 802.11b
    * Proxim ORiNOCO Classic Gold (8410-WD) 802.11b
    * NetBotz (nbac0227) 802.11b 
  PCI
    * Proxim ORiNOCO 11b (8422-WD) 802.11b 

Packet drivers

  For the cards from Lucent (spin-offs: Avaya and Agere), f.i. the
  "ORiNOCO", Agere has written a working packet driver for DOS called
  WVLAN42.COM, that can be found here (see: http://www.szivarvanynet.
  hu/download/radionet/Drivers/Avaya/Dos/ (*01)).

Installation reports

  The installation of the Cisco Aironet PCM 3xx or LMC 3xx client
  adapters on a DOS system is described here:
    * http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/
      technologies_tech_note09186a00801beda4.shtml (*02)
    * http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/wlan_adapter/350_cb20a/
      user/ms-dos/configuration/guide/dosinst.pdf (*03)
    * http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/aironet-utils-dos (*04)
  Roberto Perotti wrote an installation report (see: http://www.perotti.
  ic.cz/wavelan/ (*05)) about the Orinoco/Lucent/Agere/Avaya cards
  and FreeDOS.
  Christof Lange reported to the Arachne list to have a Avaya PCMCIA
  card working in DOS (see: http://www.freelists.org/post/arachne/
  Arachne-and-wifi (*06)).

  (*01) OK
  (*02) OK
  (*03) OK
  (*04) ?
  (*05) https://web.archive.org/web/20110527113653/http://perotti.
        ic.cz/wavelan/
  (*06) OK

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