Re: 4.x or 5.x for newbie install on laptop?
Timothy Luoma <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:24:20 -0400, Peter Radcliffe <[email protected]> wrote: > Timothy Luoma <[email protected]> probably said: >> Let me confess an ignorance (one of many). Is "Cardbus" just another >> name for "PC Card" (which is what I thought those expansion slots in >> laptops were called)? > > There are two types of card which go into those slots. > 16bit (ISA based) PCMCIA cards. > 32bit (PCI based) cardbus cards. > > The names get confused, "PC Card" comes into the fray (which can > actually mean either) and confuses things further. > > The cutouts/keys on the end of the card are different, to make sure > that you don't manage to put 32bit cards into 16bit only slots (16bit > only comtrollers/slots are quite hard to find these days in my > experience, just very old laptops). Ah, thanks... I've learned my new thing for the day. TjL -- <del>Toying with the idea of putting</del> Planning to install FreeBSD <ins>4.8-RELEASE</ins> on a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"