>instructions, sorry folks. I figured this out with the help of a fellow 2400c
>user in my area mostly. For all of you think I shouldn't have done this, I
>was really curious about what they did, and wanted to find out, $100 is not
>a lot of money, I would have spent it.
That's a pity that you decided not to publish your results. This has been an interesting issue that has raised good points on all sides.
However I find fault with the idea that we should have blind loyalty to a business that chooses to support the 2400. It's a business and as soon as they decide cardbus is not worth the bother, it'll be dropped and then what?
I aggree that we should support vendors that support the 2400, but the cardbus activation is a hack that would surely void Apple's warrenty were it in place. To critisize someone for reverse engineering someone elses hack seems inconsistant, which makes the ethical argument somewhat baseless.
There has been a long history of web sites showing us how to change out our memory, install modem cards, fix sticky keyboards, overclock a cpu and change out our hard drives. The addition of one for activating card-bus would not seem out of place. I for one have been grateful for those sites as it is far more convient for me to make a simple fix than to suffer the vagueries of some local overworked tech-dude who hasn't seen a Duo 2300 or 2400 in months and has to read the tech sheets to fix it wrong for $75 and hour and spend 2 weeks doing it.
There is no argument that $99 is cheap to do whatever they're doing to enable card-bus and I don't begrudge them the money (I spent it. . .) because they're assuming the risk that they'll zap your motherboard in the process and have to replace it.
Still, the information should be shared so that if someone wants to do it himself he could. And if someone zaps their own motherboard in the attempt that's kind of too bad. Those techically proficient (or brave) shouldn't have to suffer just to protect a few who get in over their heads.
IMHO
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