There are two communication standards when it comes to the PCMCIA standard. Firstly there is basic PCMCIA which was based off of the ISA bus standard. It allowed for direct memory access, as well as the mastering of other peripherals. Then there is PC-Card, which is based off of the PCI bus structure. it's much faster, and has a larger bandwidth, and bit-width. Systems with PC-Card compatible slots are backwards compatible with standard PCMCIA cards but it doesn't work the other way around.
Thats probably where the problem lies.
PC Card is the new term for PCMCIA. They both are 16 bit. CardBus is the newer, PCI based, 32 bit version. CardBus cards and card cages are keyed so CardBus cards can only be inserted into a CardBus cage (although there are ways around this). So if the card were CardBus it shouldn't fit into the PCMCIA module. But AFAIK the WaveLAN Card is PC Card (PCMCIA), not CardBus.
- Jonathan
On Aug 26, 2004, at 10:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Y'all were right; the Rev B PCMCIA module brought me no joy with a Wavelan PC card.
Thanks,
Craig W.
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