At 8:54 PM -0500 12/22/99, Tom Klinkowstein wrote:
>Anyone know how to do this?
Sorry, the original two is all you get.
_Theoretically_, there's a way to do it via an external expansion box
using a CardBus card to interface to the PowerBook. This is possible
because CardBus controllers are bus bridges, devices which connect to
two or more buses and allow them to talk with each other. CardBus is
really a version of PCI, and CardBus controllers speak PCI on one
side and CardBus on the other. This makes it possible (at least in
theory) to hang extra CardBus controllers off of one of the slots in
the PowerBook.
One company at least used to build a PCI card expansion chassis (for
full size desktop style PCI cards) for the Wall Street PowerBook G3,
but it used the PB G3's right hand media bay rather than the CardBus
slot. They don't make a version for the current production "101"
PowerBook G3, because it no longer has a PCI connection in the media
bay.
I don't know of any company which has tried to make an expansion box
which supplies extra CardBus (PC Card) slots like I described above.
Tim Seufert
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