[MLB-WIRELESS] PCI to PCMCIA adapter cards

Jason Hecker jason at air.net.au
Tue Mar 19 14:47:07 EST 2002


That's a good point, and PCI2.2 is what caught me out with the DWL-520 and 
my Super7 board which I want to use for wireless capers.  www.x.net.au sell 
ISA adapters.

At 02:06 PM 19/03/2002 +1100, Ben Grech wrote:
> > I have seen people mention ISA to PCMCIA adapters here but the only reason
>I
> > could see to use one of these would be in a 486 motherboard withouy PCI
> > slots.
>
>Apparently a lot of the PCI adaptors requre the PCI bus to be PCI 2.2
>compliant. This standard is fairly new, and isn't supported on older
>motherboards, particularly ones that also have ISA slots. If you're going to
>put the cards into something like a pentium-class machine, to save a lot of
>hair pulling, it's probably better to get an ISA adaptor.
>
>
>
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