Subject: Re: Wireless ethernet and ISA/PCI to PCMCIA bridges.
To: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
From: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/27/2000 17:36:40
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> From: "Brian Chase" <bdc@world.std.com>:

> > Are the bridge cards that the PC-card wireless ethernet devices use for
> > desktop PC systems generic (work with any PC-cards) or do they only
> > support their manufacturer's PC-cards?  I've been looking into playing
> > with wireless ethernet and saw the nifty ISA and PCI setups offerred by
> > Lucent.  I think they'd be useful for some of the other PC-cards I have.
>
> The Lucent ISA PCMCIA adapter I have only has a single port.  So if you
> are hoping to use the wireless and something else, you're out of luck.

I don't really care if I can use the wireless adapter at the same time as
something else.  My curiosity is solely in running other cards using the
PCMCIA bridge cards that are generally used for the 802.11 gear.

-brian.
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