Re: [PLUG] [Slightly OT] PCMCIA Network card

["Brian P. Mohr" <brian@bpmohr.com>]

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:59:16AM -0400, Bill Jonas wrote:
> Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 11:59:16 -0400
> From: Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Mail-Followup-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: [PLUG] [Slightly OT] PCMCIA Network card
> 
> I'm looking for a decent PCMCIA network card for my laptop.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?  What works well, what doesn't, etc.
> For example, I've seen comments that have come up in Google searches
> that suggest that the drivers for Xircom cards aren't that great.  Does
> anyone have a favorite 10/100 card that they'd recommend?
> 
> I'm also unclear as to whether or not my laptop has PCMCIA or CardBus.
> I've heard that 16-bit non-CardBus sockets have a hard time keeping up
> on a 100Mbit network.  I've looked at the manufacturer's website, but
> it's hard to find information on this model since it's rather old.  Does
> anyone know around what generation of processors CardBus was introduced?
> 
> On a related note, does anyone have an extra card to sell or give away?
> 
> -- 
> Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
> "They that can give up  essential  liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."        -- Benjamin Franklin

I have been using 3Com on my laptops forever, they work great.

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