Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 13:51:24 +0200
From: Arndt Schoenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] List of ISA controller modem & NIC cards for L50/70

Hi Matthew!

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:20:10PM -0700, Matthew Hanson wrote:
> Hey Arndt,
> 
> Wow, four consonants, and one vowel!  Yeah, there are plenty cardbus PCMCIA 
> modems out there.  They're all 32 bit which won't work in the older Libs. 
> Just do a Google search on "pcmcia carbus modems", and you'll find a lot of 
> them.

Ok, then I stand corrected.

> What kind of WLAN card did you pick up?

Tekram PCF-200; they are apparently OEM products made by BroMax
(http://www.bromax.com.tw/), based on Intersil's PrismIII reference
board (http://www.intersil.com/design/prism/prismapps/).

Tekram is a Taiwanese company with offices in the USA and Germany,
known for SCSI adapter cards. The WLAN stuff is apparently only
sold in Germany (through Atelco, http://www.atelco.de).

I chose these cards because they are relatively inexpensive, plus
because the WLAN PCMCIA cards based on the Prism chip set (Prism 2,
2.5, and 3) are well supported under Linux. I am using them in a
Libretto 100 (and two different bigger laptops).

Best regards,
Arndt


> >Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 00:09:28 +0200
> >From: Arndt Schoenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [LIB] List of ISA controller modem & NIC cards for L50/70
> >
> >Hi Matthew,
> >
> >On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:05:01PM -0700, Matthew Hanson wrote:
> >> It's a little tough tracking specs on these cards for sale on EBay.
> >> No one has compiled a list of ISA modem and NIC PC cards with
> >> hardware controllers that work well in the L50/70s, have they?
> >
> >are you sure that Cardbus modems exist? In fact, I have never seen or
> >even heard about one.
> >
> >It seems to me that even nowadays the vast majority of PC Cards are
> >still 16bit. E.g. I just bought brand new WLAN cards, made with the
> >latest chip set (Intersil PrismIII) that is only available since end of
> >last year -- they are 16bit. I guess Cardbus is are mostly used for USB,
> >FireWire, SCSI, and video cards. Even most 100mbit NICs are 16bit.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Arndt

--
Arndt Sch�newald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Germany



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