Re: Connectors for PCMCIA/Cardbus
Have a look at
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS
It's a list of supported cards under Linux and their category. Any card
listed as 16-bit (bla_cs) should be fine. I wouldn't give a carbus card
(bla_cb) a try.
Regards,
Christian
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:56:18PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> Can someone tell me what kind of PC card I can use with the ancient
> laptop someone just gave me?
>
> A friend gave me a Toshiba Satellite T2100CS laptop this morning,
> because it was too "obsolete" for her to run Windows on anymore. But I
> think it will be just dandy as a firewall and NAT server.
>
> It doesn't have integrated ethernet, but it does have two PC card
> slots. I tried to plug my 3Com 3CCFE575CT 10/100 cardbus (32-bit)
> ethernet card into it, and it won't fit. It seems to me that the
> socked on the card is not physically compatible with the pins in the
> laptop slot.
>
> But I took it to a local PC retailer, and they claimed that Cardbus
> cards will work in 16-bit PCMCIA slots. They said the upper 16 bits of
> the data bus just wouldn't be used. To prove this they pulled a
> Linksys 10/100 PC card from one of their own laptops and popped it into
> my ancient toshiba, and it slid right in, no problem.
>
> They didn't have the Linksys cards in stock but said they could order
> one in for me to pick up tomorrow, for $59. They were hip to linux and
> said they would investigate to be sure it would work with linux before
> I ordered.
>
> I thought maybe I hadn't inserted my 3Com card correctly, so I came
> home and tried it again. It still won't go in. It inserts into my
> Pentium III compaq presario 1800T without any problem, but it seems no
> amount of wiggling will get it into the toshiba.
>
> My theory is that the computer shop was blowing smoke about the
> compatibility, and that their linksys card is PCMCIA (16-bit) not
> cardbus (32-bit).
>
> My understanding is that PCMCIA is ISA bus in a small form factor,
> while cardbus is a small form factor PCI. I find it hard to imagine
> how a cardbus card could be backwards compatible with 16-bit PCMCIA.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me?
>
> To start with I'll be using the firewall with a hayes external 56k
> modem. But I'd like to also get a modem PC card, so that if there is a
> power failure the laptop battery will works as a sort of UPS. With the
> external modem I'd lose my modem connection in the event of a power
> failure. My 56k hayes also is kind of buggy, I have to reset it every
> now and then because it gets hung and won't dial in.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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