Satellite 1400-103: do I need a Wlan switch use a PCMCIA WiFi card

I have been using broadband through my usb ports on the fixed network and have recently upgraded to wireless router hub to give me the portability. Having realized that my hub router does not come with a pcmcia card or of dongel I am looking to buy a pcmcia (pc card) card.

My problem is that the laptop will allow wireless comms since there is no wire pass under the floppy drive as described in the manual and on later versions. Do I have this switch or card pcmcia will do everything what I need (there are two slots for cards available and the manual talks about ability CardBus).

Do I have to worry about the ability of Wireless LAN in my computer or the pcmcia card will do everything?

Ideally, I would just buy the pcmcia card, plug it in (plugnplay pilots to kick XP) and I won ' t need to do much more.

Any advice on this would be appreciated before that I have spend £ 20 on a 32-bit pcmcia wireless card.

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Andrew

I agree with chain.
The minPCI wireless network card is not removable on an easy way and therefore the hardware switch is to enable and disable the WLan functionality in different situations.

The PCMCIA card is an external card, which can be removed in 2-3 sec.
The withdrawal of this card will also disable the WLan functionality.
Accordingly PCMCIA cards don t need the hardware like wireless minPCI network card switch

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