Re: NTLK Does AirPort card work with PCMCIA?

From: Avi Drissman (drissman@acm.org)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 00:45:17 EST


>What is CardBus? Is this on a PCMCIA card?

The PC-Card standard specifies a 16-bit bus. The extension of the
standard to 32 bits was named CardBus. The shape of the end of the
card is slightly different, so that old PC-Cards can fit into a
CardBus slot, while CardBus cards can't fit into a PC-Card slot.

According to
<http://www.wavelan.com/products/productspecs.html?id=26>, the
interface is specified as "PC Card", so that's encouraging. Since
802.11 is essentially wireless Ethernet, hopefully one of the
ethernet card driver writers can take it up.

I hope... :-)

Avi

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