Re: Where to find a true PCI->PCMCIA Adapter

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            richard childers <[email protected]> writes:
: Belkin's PCI->PCMCIA adapter appears to sufficient elements of the wi
: chipset to be recognized as a wi at boot time even with no PCMCIA card
: installed.

Then this is a PLX based card (which is what I recall from the stores).

: The PCMCIA card itself, alas, is not a supported wireless card at this time,
: to the best of my knowledge (this may change in 5.0).

I'm not aware of any belkin pcmcia wireless card that isn't
supported.

: It is my understanding that the bridges are proprietary to their vendors but
: this may only be true on the Windows side of things, where interoperability
: is determined by the manufacturer rather than the chipset.

Not exactly.  The PLX bridges are documented and/or trivial to figure
out what the interface to them are.  They are just a cost reduced way
of bringing pcmcia cards onto the pci bus when you don't need all that
hot-swap ability :-)

Warner

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