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The Search for the Last PCMCIA Wireless Card

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First post, by rob8086

Posted on 2020-02-21, 23:47

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As the title implies, I'm trying to find what the very last type of PCMCIA wireless card was.

I can comfortably say there are no PCMCIA 802.11ac cards in existence. But! I did find a Cisco card supporting draft 802.11n, found here. So I guess what I'm trying to figure out is if there are any newer cards available than this one.

Thoughts?

Edit: I believe this dual-band 802.1n card is significantly newer than the one referenced above. The search continues.

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Reply 1 of 3, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2020-02-22, 02:34

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You need to differentiate between PCMCIA, PCCard, and ExpressCard.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Horun

Posted on 2020-02-22, 02:42

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What gdjacobs said ! Curious what are you installing it in ?
Why I ask is the older 16bit PCMCIA is limited to 20Mbytes, the newer (using PCMCIA connectors) are Cardbus 32bit bus 132Mbytes. If your older Laptop is using 16bit interface then going to a faster card will not help you much, specially if it does not support Cardbus. Just a thought...

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Reply 3 of 3, by rob8086

Posted on 2020-02-22, 06:09

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gdjacobs wrote on 2020-02-22, 02:34:

You need to differentiate between PCMCIA, PCCard, and ExpressCard.

Right you are! I've always used PCMCIA as kind of a catch-all and that's wrong. For my specific purposes, I'm looking for PC Cards for an Inspiron 8100.

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