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Younggates
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 Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:43 am Post subject: EVDO Aircard on your Desktop PC via a PCI to PCMCIA Adapter! |
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| You can use your EVDO aircard on your home or office Desktop PC! To do this, you need to first purchase a "PCI to PCMCIA adapter". But be carefull! Some PCI to PCMCIA Adapters have been reported to (FRY!!!) expencive EVDO aircards & many more are incompatable! I have two "PCI to PCMCIA Adapters" that I have purchased, and can confirm is compatable with the new Kyocera V650 EVDO aircard. You can purchase them at: www.teampctechnology.com Product# P111 Price: $75.00 Phone: 1(949) 348-7766 or at: www.geeks.com Product# F-PPM485-01-SB01 Price: $19.99 Phone: 1 (760) 726-7700 *Should anyone know of other PCI to PCMCIA adapters that are EVDO 32-bit compatable, please let me know, as I wish to write a review & test with other EVDO aircard models & manufactures. |
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Michael
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jettamatt13
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| What about PCMCIA to USB? |
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brendanhoar
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| jettamatt13 wrote: | | What about PCMCIA to USB? |
Are you talking about an external adapter that you conntect to a desktop's USB port that allows you to plug in a pc card, such as the EVDO cards?
Unfortunately, while that's physically possible, it won't work.
The EVDO cards are cardbus (32bit interface), not 16-bit PCMCIA. Granted, both kinds of cards fit in a standard type II slot, and current laptops work with both kinds, but the electrical and signalling interfaces are different.
The only adapters I've seen close to what I think you are asking about are for memory card readers, such as this one:
http://www.xpcgear.com/atflpcusbdui.html
At best, the corded part is providing a USB to 16-bit PCMCIA (not cardbus) bridge. If I recall correctly, the CF card standard is a subset of 16-bit PCMCIA, not sure about the rest of the memory cards.
So anyway, such adapters won't work with cardbus, only 16-bit PCMCIA (or they may be limited even more to only work with the subset that is the CF standard or only with memory cards).
My understanding is that, for all practical purposes, cardbus is a hotplug subset/derivation of the PCI bus. The older 16-bit PCMCIA was a bridge to the ISA bus. If you remember, over 10 years ago, desktop computers started to migrate from the slow ISA bus to the fast PCI bus.
As far as I know, there aren't bridge chips available, even under USB 2.0, that give you an external cardbus interface box.
-brendan
PS - and finally, while watching the v620 drivers install on my win2k workstation, it was clear that the card is installed as a USB2.0 *controller* with 3 or more additional devices hanging off that interface (but inside the card). They clearly designed the radio chipset so that it could be used either in a pc card slot, or as part of a separate corded USB2.0 device. In the future, depending on marketing concerns, I suspect they'll introduce usb 2.0 devices with the same radio chipset for use with both laptops and desktops. |
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