Instead of using the PCMCIA slot, you might connect the card directly to the
PCI bus thru a docking station slot holding the auxiliary card.
The supposition in the industry is that
o if your notebook has access to its own internal PCI bus (some
machines have this port available, some don't), and
o you attach to it a full docking station (not a port replicator) that
holds cards the size of your PCI bus network interface card,
o then just as in a desktop style computer this attaches
the card directly to the notebook's own PCI bus.
Whether a suitable full docking station is available for your particular
notebook or not is the first problem. Certain OEM companies specialize in
such docking stations (frequently listed as exhibitors at PC shows); over
the last half decade such docks have changed from AT/ISA bus to PCI bus and
become more generic, so you might be lucky to find one for your particular
notebook even if its manufacturer (or OEM) doesn't know about it.
The more we ask for them, the sooner they get developed for the
sizes and types of cards and devices we want to use. Interestingly enough,
the early ones for x86 sometimes added SCSI ports, but .... National
Instruments decided to go thru the PCMCIA for DAQ but say it's slow.
At 09:06 AM 26-05-1999 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Patrick Mei wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>
>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).
>
>Can't you use a PCMCIA net card?
>
>--- [rtl] ---
>To unsubscribe:
>echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR
>echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>----
>For more information on Real-Time Linux see:
>http://www.rtlinux.org/~rtlinux/
>
--- [rtl] ---
To unsubscribe:
echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR
echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----
For more information on Real-Time Linux see:
http://www.rtlinux.org/~rtlinux/
