On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2008 05:54:10 pm Eben King wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Mark Banschbach, SFO wrote:
>>> I am looking for a 16 bit wireless card for an NEC Mobilepro 780.
>>>
>>> Anyone happen to have a spare one of these antiques in the drawer at home
>>> ?
>>
>> How do I tell if a PCMCIA card is 16 or 32 bit?
>
> Some time ago I went through this with an ancient Thinkpad my daughter had.
> It was with an ethernet card. The shape of the edges of the cards are such
> that the 32 bit type will not seat fully when pushed into a slot designed for
> a 16 bit card.
You mean the face, not the grooves on the side? So it'll go most of the way
in, but as you said won't seat properly, yes?
> Not knowing this at the time, I thought I had gotten a cheap card that
> just didn't fit quite right and filed it down to make seat correctly. Of
> course it didn't work (and fortunately I didn't blow anything out!). I
> got the correct card and it worked.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't remember the details well enough to say exactly how
> to spot the difference.
On my mother's laptop (Toshiba Satellite A200 IIRC), the PCMCIA cards we
tried would only go in about halfway. I surmised that her slot was a bit
broken so that the card catches on something.
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