Re: PCMICA Network and Modem card
On Jan 13, lordsaint415 wrote:
> I have a Sony Vaio F250 laptop and I would like to know what is the
> difference between a normal pcmcia card and a cardbus card.
> And which is compatible with Debian.
PCMCIA is the old, 16-bit PC Card specification. CardBus is the
32-bit specification, which brings PC Cards up to about PCI speeds.
PCMCIA is better supported, but the latest pcmcia-cs packages include
CardBus support. I've used a CardBus Adaptec SCSI adapter with few
problems on an F270 (except the bloody cable is too short; I have to
literally balance my laptop on top of my SCSI enclosure for it to
reach). Dunno about CardBus modems and network cards; however, I keep
frying 3Com NIC/Modem combos (PCMCIA) in my F270, because there's zero
ventilation in the PC Card slots. A Linksys combo card works better,
but it doesn't have a 10Base2 connector, so I ended up with two
Ethernet cards...
Chris
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