DECs stuff was branded as RoamAbout DS which I've got a small box of somewhere that I really ought to put to use someday. Epson, Hitachi, NEC and DEC all sold this WaveLAN hardware. Problem is this hardware predates 802.11 WiFi and does not interoperate with 802.11 hardware at all - it can only talk to other WaveLAN hardware including dedicated WaveLAN Access Points. They come in PCMCIA, ISA and MCA variants. There might be a packet driver too though if not shims would allow the ODI or NDIS2 driver to be used. There are NDIS2 and ODI drivers for DOS 5.0+ and Windows for Workgroups, plus NDIS3 drivers for Windows 95 and NT. The first kind, the original WaveLAN, really does support basically all the network stacks from the mid 90s. Its perhaps worth noting that there are two very different types of WaveLAN hardware out there. WaveLAN was mentioned much earlier in the thread.
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