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| Thread ID: 89962 | 2008-05-18 05:13:00 | Difference PCMCIA v PC Card v CardBus | A Team (13613) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 670380 | 2008-05-18 12:49:00 | Try & stick with USB if possible, avoids many of the issues as you're discovering :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 670381 | 2008-05-18 17:06:00 | card bus (newer PCMCIA) based on PCI wont work or even fit on on the ISA based PCMCIA slots as i have discovered on some older (12+ year old toshiba and compaq) laptops. laptops made late last century will work with the (more) modern PCMCIA cards but today it is shifting to (pcmcia) express cards (laptop equivelent to PCIe i think) which has drifted from the old pcmcia standard of thickness and width etc and found on some mobile internet cards | williamF (115) | ||
| 670382 | 2008-05-19 02:57:00 | Any card will fit any slot. Just push harder. :banana | Graham L (2) | ||
| 670383 | 2008-05-19 09:11:00 | So; What cards will fit in a CardBus slot (besides CardBus)? What cards will fit in a PC Card slot (besides PC Card)? Cheers Cardbus will work with 32bit cardbus cards or PCMCIAs. PC Cards the older one will work with probably type I and II but not 32bit cardbus. It won't power up and may not fit .. and the Windows will not recognise it or see it. Edit. If you are still thinking of this wireless issue. The cheapest and fastest way is probably get a wireless router with network cable connection and just plug it into your old laptop. No extra parts to buy. The router most likely would give you a free network cable anyway. The other PCs can just use wireless and share the internet and network with your computers. The other way is get a USB wireless network device - if and when available. This way the router can be placed in the lounge and turned on 24/7 and each PC at their desire just power on the computer and use the net ... anytime. |
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| 670384 | 2008-05-19 09:18:00 | My P3 2000 laptop is doing just that. Wireless ADSL router is connected by cable. Flasher PC downstairs is connected by wireless - to share one of my hard drive partition and the internet. It saves me getting a Cardbus or USB wireless network device and that its a old laptop when I get a flasher PC I might just get a internal wireless card anyway. Or that some PCs and all laptops these days have free builtin wireless anyway. I didn't wanna waste my money. |
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