Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:22:11 -0000 From: Freddie Cash <fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100 CardBus II Message-ID: <200004300821.40926.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <CD1C1AC62C4DA944914E36E7B3DD904313DB2A@sestosrv004p.ad.octapharma.se> References: <CD1C1AC62C4DA944914E36E7B3DD904313DB2A@sestosrv004p.ad.octapharma.se>
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On April 30, 2004 05:05 am, Gunnarsson, Mikael wrote: > If your laptop has two pccard slots on top of eachother, you can fit > a TypeIII card. A TypeIII card takes up both slots though. > Xircom 'solved' the problem with the Realport2 cards, since it will > take both slots in height, but only a half slot in width, so you can > fit another Realport2 card, flipped upside-down, as well. Of course, > you then limit yourself to only using another realport2 in the second > slot. I'm not sure if there is a wlan realport2 card though. There is > a bluetooth card, but I haven't seen a wlan one. > The advantage of the realport cards are of course that you get a real > RJ45 connector built into the card, so you don't have to use a > fragile dongle or xjack.. And everybody else solved that problem in a much more logical way, using only a single Type II slot and putting the full RJ45 connector on the outside of the port. Linksys, NetGear, SMC, D-Link all have integrated PCCard and CardBus NICs. The nice thing about these is that you can use them in laptops that only have a single Type II slot, or you can put another Type II card underneath if you have two slots. Unfortunately, you can't use one of these integrated cards and a wireless card, unless you can find a wireless NIC that puts the antenna bump on the bottom of the card. -- Freddie Cash fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca
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