Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] Silly Question

[Ansley B. <ans...@ma...>]

Actually, from what I understand, the Airport card interface is a 
proprietary one that shares more characteristics with IDE than PCMCIA.

-Ansley

On Feb 4, 2005, at 3:49 AM, Jens Miltner wrote:

>
> Am 02.02.2005 um 01:08 schrieb Mark Ronaele Watkins:
>
>> Is the apple airport card a PCMCIA card?  If so, couldn't an Orinoco 
>> Card
>> be installed internally in my iBook?  Just curious.  Has anyone 
>> managed to
>> get another wireless card inside of their iBook.  Just asking because 
>> I
>> don't have an external PCMCIA slot like powerbooks do.
>
> The Airport cards are shorter than your standard PCMCIA card, so 
> you'll probably run into geometrical problems.
> Also, the card would need a connector for an external antenna (not 
> sure whether the Orinoco card provides this).
> Apart from that, I believe the Airport card is in fact a PCMCIA card, 
> but I'm also not sure whether the Airport slot is a standard PCMCIA 
> slot...
> All in all, I doubt you'll be able to fit in an external card :(
>
> </jum>
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