On 31 Jan 99, at 4:27, Bob Chapel wrote:

> 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>

  I'm afraid that PCMCIA : CardBus == ISA : EISA.  Old peripherals can
still be used in the new slot, but (many) newer peripherals want more
bandwidth than the old interface can deliver, and no adaptor can fix
that.

David G

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