Wireless PCI: true system requirements?

[heymrdj]

I am giving my mom an older system she wanted for just internet and email to put in her room. The system specs are as follows:

K6-II 400 processor
Asus P5A-B
Windows 98SE
192MB RAM

The computer is about 80ft. (staright path through walls) from my com,puter room. So I wanna get a Wireless G router from Linsys. I also need a Wireless G receiver for the computer, and I saw a nice one from Linksys, but it says it needs 500mhz processor and 128MB of RAM. The system only has the K6II 400 and 192MB RAM. here. So does it really need that power? Am I boned for wireless (gets his 100ft of ethernet cat 5e from 3 years back and his overalls for the crawlspace) or is there still hope?

[glc]

I've put Linksys wireless cards in computers that are a lot weaker than that one.

2 items - if you are going to go Linksys, get the WRT54GL router, not the WRT54G - unless you can find a WRT54G older than V5. Also, with 98SE, you will want to assign the wireless adapter a static IP because 98's DHCP process times out before the adapter can associate with the access point.

[heymrdj]

Yeah I had seen about that Revision 5 crap. Why the heck would Linksys switch to VxWorks from a stable Linux firmware? Oh well. Thx for the info GLC. That helps a lot. No Crawling :P.

[glc]

They did the same sort of thing with the old BEFW11S4 - they took a good stable router and did something nasty to it with version 4. That was so bad I had to switch to D-Link until Linksys got the WRT54G out there at a reasonable price. At least this time they re-released an old version under a different model name.