Re: Cardbus cards in Pre-Cardbus PCMCIA laptops?
- From: Grant <bugsplatter@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:15:30 +1000
On 2 Apr 2006 17:25:50 -0700, "billstewart" <nonobvious@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've got an old laptop I'd like to upgrade from Win95 to Linux or *BSD,
but it's pre-USB and the PCMCIA slots are pre-Cardbus. If I plug in a
Cardbus card (e.g. Wireless or USB), will it work,
Sorry, not at all. The reason is simple, CardBus can be 32-bit PCI
device, whilst the older PCMCIA are like 16-bit ISA devices.
The CardBus bridge (chip inside laptop) may work with both 16 and 32
bit, as well as cater for 5V and 3.3V CardBus devices. Older laptop
PCMCIA bridges would not provide PCI the bus interface (since the
laptop doesn't have one ;)
Older laptops? I have a Thinkpad 365X ;) You can pickup older PCMCIA
NICs second-hand, go for 'name' brands. I have three Xircom NICs that
work well with linux:
CE-IIps Credit Card Adapter (older 16-bit, 10Mbps),
CE3B-100 (labeled: "PC Card 16 5V", 10/100Mbps),
RBE-100 CardBus (for a later model laptop, 10/100Mbps).
but otherwise I'm probably limited to Samba file sharing
from a Windows machine over 10 Mbps wired Ethernet. Thanks!
Are you running another linux box on local network? You can use
NFS too.
Also there's the PLIP option -- netlink via parallel cable.
Grant.
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