I'm not quite up on all the pcmcia stuff, I've only started using laptops
in the last 6 months and at that, I've both times managed to get pretty
compatible hardware. I understand what you're talking about with those
dongles - what a stupid idea! I've got a regular pcmcia eth card and a
modem which both use those weak little wires with those crappy little
connectors. Those have been ripped out more than once when one of the
kids tripped over the wire - that's why I went wireless to begin with.
I noticed also that there are several different specs for the cardbus.
Though since I've started using laptops, I've noticed that almost
EVERYTHING is non-standard. When I installed a 128MB stick of ram in my
toshiba, it required a razor blade, some electric tape and some tricky
manuevering to enlarge the case enough so that it would fit. I would say
that of all hardware, the one I would least want to work on would be
compaq. If their pc's are any comparison, I've worked on a few of those
and they are no joy.
Mike
Thursday, James Sparenberg mused:
> I may .... maybe not have run across something that has a lot to do with
> the "problem" and the fact that some have the problem some don't. I've
> been know for my ability to lose dongles for quite some time. With
> dongles being almost as expensive as the full pcmcia nic I just keep
> buying new nic's ... So today ... when I did it again. I bit the bullet
> and bought a dongle free nic. Same manf as my other nic.... and it
> didn't work... took it back....changed model.... still doesn't work.
> Guess what the problem turns out to be! The new dongle free nics are 32
> bit my dongled nics where always 16 bit. EVEN though the website says
> my laptop supports 32 bit nics it turns out that not all versions (there
> where 7!) of this model have 32 bit support... sheesh. (called compaq)
> Could it be that these wireless cards are 32 bit cardbus and the laptop
> isn't? In the windows world the drivers apparently cheat and run the 32
> bit card as if it was 16 bit. But here it doesn't work. (didn't in NT
> either but compaq claims XP would.. like I care.) Just a thought.
>
> James
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