Question about Asante AL1611 802.11b Wireless Adapter
The best thing about this old Asante AL1611 wifi-b card is that it only protrudes 1cm. I use it mainly for surfing in coffee shop with an old Portege 3480CT (P3-600) XP-based laptop, and its fine. Range is mediocre.
This card is based on an old Realtek 80211b chipset. For both WEP & WPA compatibility you must you update to the RTL8180L driver (version 173) - look for this filename: ndis5x-8180(173).zip on the net.
The mfg/dealer rebate of $10 never came through, so I paid $20 for it back in 2004. If you can get it for about $10 or less and just need basic connectivity, its good for what it is. (from Canada)
Posted on Mar 22, 2008
Is this a new device? A lot of newer wireless adaptors come with drivers for NTFS based operating systems such as windows 2k or XP. Windows 98 runs on FAT32. I don't know if this will work. I suggest you upgrade your OS.
Posted on Aug 17, 2007
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This may well be the case, the NIC is three years old and worked fine in my wife's Win2000 laptop which died. I'm trying to use my old Win98 laptop until her employer coughs up for a proper replacement. Guess I'll have to hard wire it into the lan instead.
I could get nothing from RealTek at all, no explanation or even acknowledgment that their links were broken.
Thanks
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