[NCLUG] wireless ethernet

[Michael Dwyer]

> Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:10:30PM -0600, Eric Brunson wrote:
> > >I've borrowed a third Linksys card and will try it out with the
> > >Linksys PCI adapter in my desktop this weekend.  I don't know if
the
> > >pcmcia stuff will recognize it, but if anyone's interested I'll let
> > >you know how it goes.
> >
> > I know Luke was interested in the PCI/PCMCIA adapters...  By now, he
may
> > already have an answer...
>
> Actually, I have no answer at this time, although Michael Dwyer was
> filling me with doom and gloom about how impossible it is to get a
> PCMCIA-PCI bridge thing to do anything, anywhere, for any purpose.

I said nothing of the sort!  I just mentioned that PCMCIA cards are
somewhat of a mystic art to me.  I didn't know the interaction of
3v vs 5v, cardbus vs PC-card, and the bittiness (second time! Woo!)
of each of the interfaces.
My comments may have been colored by recent experiences with PCMCIA
hardware in certain laptops... Grrr...
I don't actually have any experience with the PCI-PCMCIA converters.
They always seemed kinda silly to me, though... Why not build a real
PCI wireless card?!  But I digress...

> I'm hoping that someone here has the information I need to buy a
> PCMCIA-PCI bridge, install it, get it to work, and then get back here
> and tell him, "In your FAAAACE!!!!" as a defeatist like him so richly
> deserves.

Ouch.

$83 at Insight: http://www.antec-inc.com/product/pc_card/datachut.html
$44 at Insight, and probably more what you want anyway:
http://www.insight.com/web/apps/products/productpresentation.php?product
_id=cpx128462