# 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.

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## 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

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## 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/).

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## Installation reports

      The installation of the Cisco Aironet PCM 3xx or LMC 3xx client adapters
      on a DOS system are described here:
        * http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/
          technologies_tech_note09186a00801beda4.shtml
        * http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/wlan_adapter/350_cb20a/
          user/ms-dos/configuration/guide/dosinst.pdf
        * http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/aironet-utils-dos
      Roberto Perotti wrote an installation report (see: http://www.perotti.
      ic.cz/wavelan/) 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).

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