[ale] pcmcia to pci - do I need drivers? - followup

[Christopher Bergeron]

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Here's one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3406363421&category=20321

:)

Christopher Bergeron wrote:

| One Hundred Dollars?!  Yikes. I think I'll just buy an $99 Wifi PCI 
card that's just a PCMCIA WiFi card with a PCMCIA-PCI adapter.  I'll use 
the PCMCIA card "righteously" in my portable and use the PCMCIA->PCI 
adapter for my purposes.
|
| :)
|
| Thanks for the leads,
| CB
|
|
|
| Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
|
| |You can get an actual PCMCIA interface for your desktop. It doesn't
| |require any special drivers other than those required by the chipset it
| |uses. It's not really an adapter card in the sense that it doesn't make
| |your PCMCIA device into a PCI device. It actually adds the PCMCIA
| |interface.
| |
| |I have one that has a card that plugs into the PCI slot, and a ribbon
| |cable goes to a drive bay-mountable box with two PCMCIA slots. As far as
| |the computer is concerned, it sees a PCMCIA interface. Just like a 
laptop.
| |They also make PCI cards where the PCMCIA card slides into it on the back
| |of the computer, but having them on the front is a bit more convenient -
| |especially for things like flash memory cards.
| |
| |http://www.azeemacomputer.com/html/pcmcia-pci.htm -- The one on the left
| |is the toy I have. They typically run about $100 or so. Check here:
| |
| |http://shopper.cnet.com/shopping/resellers/0-9824682-311-107188.html
| |
|

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