Subject: Re: Quick! Everyone go look at the Apple web site
To: Matthew Reilly <mjreilly@inch.com>
From: David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/20/2000 18:34:53
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Matthew Reilly wrote:

> It's my understanding that the Airport interface is actually some sort of
> ATA bus, not PC card despite the similar form factor. I could be wrong
> through.

Nope.  It's a PCMCIA card.  They made it without the antenna so you
couldn't buy the (much cheaper) airport cards and stick them in a normal
machine.  Similarly, the version in the base stations is modified to have
a different pin order for the same reason, IIRC.


David

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