I finally was able to borrow an old Dell D810 notebook with a PCMCIA slot but the only problem was that it has Windows7 and the Linksys driver would not work

What a frustrating machine. I turn it on and it first wants to download two years of about 500TB of windows updates. Who puts windows 7 on a machine with such low specs anyway. Oh, and the best part is it had some virus checker popping up(behind the browser... in the background) insisting that every single file I downloaded is infested with a virus.
So I just prepared an 60GB Windows XP HD (under Oracle VirtuaBox) with all of the drivers and files and I'm going to swap the HD in that D810 before I try it again.
That way I can leave that little treasure in its present condition and don't end up getting stuck rebuilding the OS after something goes wrong

I was going to try a linux live CD but with my luck something will be screwy with the CD ROM.
Hiddenevil, thanks for the guide! Hopefully it makes rest goes better. So far this has been a mission
