> > I want to connect a PCI bus network interface card to my notebook
> > computer.Who can tell me how to bridge a PCI bus to a PCMCIA bus?
>
Donald Gaffney wrote:
> Wow, these busses are *a lot* different (width, speed, and setup); I
> don't think there is a way to do this. I've never heard of a product to
> do this, it seems like there would be alot of caching necessary to move
> off of PCI on to PCMCIA (that is you couldn't possibly get the full
> bandwidth of the PCI bus, because the PCMCIA bus is slower).
I agree with Donald !!!
A such device is very complicated , cause on bootup , a bios ( PCI Bios)
is needed to configure PCI card ( IRQs , IOs ... ) and I don't think
that an emulation of this hard is possible thinking that PCMCIA is
already a
bus with his own configuration !
More , on Hardware , the PCI configuration space is located on PCI Bios,
directly accessible on Bios of the computer , and if a such device
exists , it is not sure that the PCI searching device of drivers work
(cause they search in a special Bios Area ) !
A PCMCIA NetCard would be cheaper with less complication.
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