Cardbus is a hardware standard. If your hardware doesn't support it, you
are out of luck.  If you do get a new laptop, be certian that is has
Cardbus support.  You could see 4-10 improvement.

Chris Vogt
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At 04:27 AM 1/31/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Bright guy that I am and always alert for a good deal I bid on an INTEL
>Cardbus Lan Card (a rather expensive little thing if bought retail)and got a
>very nice price.  What I didn't know is that this is a rather specific
>interface that is not supported by any but the newest laptops.
>
>Anyone have any idea how I might make the thing work with my 16 bit pcmcia
>slots (ie..are 16 bit card slots so because of a card interface in the
>machine that governs them or is it the drive itself?) Am I essentially out
>of luck until I buy a new laptop?
>The one I have suits my purposes just fine (CTX ez700 200mhz with 40 megs of
>memory)  I guess I can always return it to INTEL and ask to replace it with
>the 16 bit model but I might be past the 30 day limit.  Whatever.....any
>suggestions welcome (apart from using it as a 50.00 bookmark<g>
>
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