On Tuesday 05 February 2002 01:41, Christian Bricart wrote: | On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 03:20:21PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: | > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:32:33AM +0000, Vadim Plessky wrote: | > [..] | > | > > BTW: there are PCI Wireless cards out there, world is not ended at | > > PCMCIA :-) | > | > Every single one I've seen is just a pcmcia adapter bundled with a | > pcmcia card. Of course someone might be making something different but | > it would be the first one I've seen. At least Linksys, SMC, D-Link, | > and Lucent all do it that way. | | oh .. at least I have two PCMCIA card in a PCI adaptor card .. and it's | NOT PCMCIA .. it's PLX .. most of the adaptor cards are PLX - which is, | from what I've understood so far, more like a ISA bridge than a PCI .. | that's why those cards are not hot-pluggable
Ok, let me speak about D-Link DWL-650 It has PC Card Type II bus, and support IEEE 802.11b and WiFi standards, plus 64/128-bit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) Encryption. You can check details depending on the region you are coming from here: http://www.dlink.com.tw/2000e/Product2001/Product/products.html There are also: DWL-120 Wireless USB Adapter, IEEE 802.11b, WEP, USB 1.1 DWL-500 Wireless PCI Adapter, IEEE 802.11b, WEP, PCI 2.1 So, if you both Desktop and Laptop, you insert DWL-500 PCI card into desktop, and plug-in DWL-650 PC Card into this PCI card. Than you can work from your Desktop using wireless connection. Later, you take off PC Card out of PCI adapter, and plug in PC Card into your notebook/laptop. Than you can work on Laptop using wireless. Frankly speaking, I do not know what "PLX" is. PC Card is somewhat industry standard on laptops, and I don't know why someone would like to use different connector type for wireless adpaters. Hope this info helps a little bit. | | see the "orinoco_plx" Kernel module under "Wireless (non Ham Radio)" in | the Kernel for instance .. | | Christian -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
