Re: miniPCI wireless cards

Matt Peterson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:30:20PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> 
> I will have few mini PCI wireless cards, but I need to put them
> into standard PC to make some development work. As far as I
> know there're miniPCI extenders are exists. Anybody used them ?
> 
> Please suggest vendors and source there to buy them.

Grab a Linksys WMP11, open it up and use its MiniPCI to PCI adapter
<http://www.bawug.org/images/equipment/linksys/wmp11/>.
Or, grab this
<http://www.catalyst-ent.com/Products/Adapters/minipci/minipci3.htm> (I
think it's >$100).

Do note, these cheap black connector arn't designed for constant
swapping of cards.  The Soekris board has a much nicer Foxconn
connector.

> PS: BTW, is there any difference between std PCI and mini PCI
> interfaces at driver level ?

Not that I know of.. I think that's the whole point (though the original
Lucent 11b MiniPCI has a PCMCIA bridge, Prism2.5 and the new "Ruby" from
Agere are 'pure PCI').

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Matt Peterson         another.geek.without.a.life
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