Re: [lug-nuts] PCMCIA cards

From: James Nessen (nessenj@jimsoffice.org)
Date: Sat Nov 13 1999 - 09:43:21 PST

> A friend of mine bought a PCMCIA, or card bus, (any difference?)
> 10/100 ethernet card from Linksys. I think it's working out well for
> him.

If I remember correctly, the CardBus cards are the 32 bit cards, as the
old pcmcia cards are only 16 bit. Most newer laptops support CardBus as
the older ones don't.

I know my Dell Latitude (P-133Mhz) doesn't support CardBus :-(

Jim 

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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Linux Rocks wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 05:09:26PM -0800, Webb Sprague wrote:
> >  My question is about drivers--can I buy any old
> > PCMCIA card or should I stick with 3-com or ??
> 
> I have an old 486 laptop. It's running linux (debian) with a cheapie
> 10Base-T PCMCIA card that I paid $30 bucks for a year ago. It's made by
> SVEC. I don't think they have "official" support for linux. Debian linux
> had no problems detecting and using the card.
> 
> A friend of mine bought a PCMCIA, or card bus, (any difference?)
> 10/100 ethernet card from Linksys. I think it's working out well for
> him.
> 
> Hope this helps.
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