Re: Cardbus cards in Pre-Cardbus PCMCIA laptops?

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:43:25 +0000, dhinds wrote:

billstewart <nonobvious@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

USB would let me do something more interesting, but otherwise I'm
probably limited to Samba file sharing from a Windows machine over
10 Mbps wired Ethernet. Thanks!

I'm not aware of any 16-bit PCMCIA USB adapters; certainly none that
work with Linux. There are 16-bit wireless cards; look for 802.11b
cards (11 mbit/sec), not the faster 802.11g (54 mbit/sec). And make
sure they specifically advertise 16-bit. Check the Wireless-HOWTO for
lists of supported cards.

The Zyxel Zyair B100 is a 16-bit PCMCIA card that uses the Prism chipset.
They are widely available (ebay etc) and are known to work under Linux and
BSD.

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