I have an old laptop, in the device manager there is "Texas Instruments 32bit CardBus type I/II" am I right in saying that a PCMCIA network card would work? or is PCMCIA and CardBus a different thing entirely?
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I have an old laptop, in the device manager there is "Texas Instruments 32bit CardBus type I/II" am I right in saying that a PCMCIA network card would work? or is PCMCIA and CardBus a different thing entirely?
PCMCIA cards will work in CardBus slots.
CardBus cards do not fit into PCMCIA slots.
The laptop is from 1998, so I take it it's got a cardbus slot? and a PCMCIA card will work in it?
It sounds like you've got 32-bit CardBus slots. Whether or not they're CardBus, you would be able to use a regular PCMCIA card just fine.
Cardbus is 32-bit PCMCIA. Older PCMCIA cards are 16-bit.
A 16 bit card will fit into a 32-bit slot, a 32-bit card will not fit into a 16 bit slot.
I got a 32-bit card, it fits into the slot ok, so I guess that means it will work?
You should be fine.