Subject: Re: 100BaseT pcmcia cards?
To: Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/26/2000 12:44:43
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 04:23:20PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> At 03:28 PM 4/25/00 -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >i don't know of any 100 baset pc cards, just cardbus.
> 
> I *think* the 3Com 3C574 10/100 PCMCIA works these days (Jason?), although
> you'll only get about 25Mbits or so out of it. I also bought a 3C575, and
> it works wonderfully on a Thinkpad 600. I got mine for $70 from a surplus
> dealer (http://www.centrix-intl.com), but they don't seem to have them
> these days - just combo cards, and I'm not sure how those work on NetBSD.

I successfully use a 3C574 in a thinkpad 600.  (Which does have cardbus, 
but I haven't been able to get it to work yet)

It's definitely less than 100Mbps, but more than 10.

> 
> Unfortunately, from what I can gather about the 560 at ibm.com, all models
> are PCMCIA only (either that, or their technical writers did a poor job),
> so you may be stuck with a slow non-cardbus ethernet.


+j
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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz