From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 30 08:22:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C083816A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E36343D31 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:22:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D200573432 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailtest.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 73072-08 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.169] (unknown [192.168.0.169]) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C7473422 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:22:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Freddie Cash Organization: School District 73 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200004300821.40926.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at sd73.bc.ca Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100 CardBus II X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:22:11 -0000 X-Original-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:21:40 -0700 X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:22:11 -0000 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