Tony is a Geek

" Soooo....what ya' been up to today? ",  " It being a Saturday, y'know that day of freedom and no work? "... Well, working, but playing, if that makes sense.  Okay, so I decided that today was going to be a day of "going back Marty, going back.... to 1995/6" I have burnt a LOT of time trying to get the IBM PC 110 laptop device to work with a vast array of WiFi cards - yes, I know I'm asking a lot to get it to run from MS-DOS, but, y'know, my other device, the HandBook 486 doesn't seem to be having any trouble with the config/setup. I've narrowed it down to the hardware.  I had to have a bit of a refresher on the device, I'm glad this guys website is still up and running (I'll leave links here for the future, also if they every disappear the WayBackWhen machine can be used to go fetch the archives, if they have been archived) http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/pc110idx.htm Pressing F1 on the physical device (with the external ...

Whilst hunting high and low for the Wifi extender (that I did find in the end!), I managed to do a lot of tidying up of my home office...and during that tidying up phase I found a few old laptops/netbooks/handbooks .   I also found the old Netgear Wifi router that still has WEP security on it (only way I've found (so far) to get the old DOS equipment on the Wifi network).  It's a pretty simple setup, as detailed at the bottom of the page HERE , except I foolishly (or not?) did a factory reset on the Netgear router and therefore "lost" all the previous config setup.  I did what I thought was logical based on the screenshots from before, but it was still eluding me.  I created a new WEP key, I added that into the DOS autoexec.bat, but it just didn't seem to want to connect.  I set the Netgear router up to only allow the MAC address of the Wifi card, so I'll hopefully reduce any drive-by opportunistic sniffers jumping on my network (not that I'll be leaving t...