On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:51:21AM -0800, Andrew Dixon wrote: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The laptop is a Sony Vaio f250 and the card is a > NetGear ethernet card model FA510c which > is a 32-bit CardBus card. Could you educate me on the > terminology here? Does CardBus > mean a 32-bit port? >
Yes, that's right. The slots handle both kinds of cards. The 32bit Cardbus cards give you faster speed on a 100Mbit net. Support for the 32bit cards isn't (or wasn't, I don't know the latest) as well developed as for the older 16bit pcmcia cards. > How did you tweek your BIOS settings? > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The usual way ;) Holding the appropriate key while powering or booting up (ESC for Toshiba). Toshiba utilities also let you tweak the BIOS while the computer is running. I don't know about Sony Vaio specifically. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
