Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Yeah, everyone uses USB for this stuff mostly these days, and SDcard is > a lot more prevalent. (CF mostly lost the format wars, despite being > simpler, and in many ways faster. I think the physical form factor -- > which is inappropriate for mobile devices like phones -- is probably > what killed it in the long run.) > > So would you complain if pcata were to go away? Can you use a USB based > CF reader on said laptop (or perhaps a cardbus version, which would fit > in the same slot, and be a lot faster?)
Honestly, I'd probably just boot a different OS to do file transfers if the card stopped working. >> I also have a pcwl (Orinoco Gold) card that I use on my laptop >> occasionally because the built-in interfaces tend to stink royally. >> > > Yeah, I think there are still a lot of folks using pcwl. Which is kinda > unfortunate because the driver lacks some important workarounds/fixes > for some errata. (Which mostly hurt the miniPCI version of pcwl.... > badly enough that I consider miniPCI Prism 2.5 cards to be completely > unusable with the pcwl driver. At one point I was going to try to fix > this, but I've since mostly lost interest since I don't use my one > laptop that had one of these cards anymore -- it was a Tadpole SPARCLE.) The card I have was sold at an IETF meeting years ago. I still use it occasionally because it's highly reliable. In an environment where the newfangled 802.11[gn] adapters (mostly built-in affairs with questionable antennas) either get marginal signal, low speed, frequent connection drops, or just plain lock up and cease working at all, that old 802.11b card works reliably. 11Mbps isn't very quick, but it's far faster than zero. And I hate standing in one corner of the room with the laptop at a jaunty 30? angle just to get a stable signal. :-/ -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
