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Skriven 2008-02-07 11:26:24 av Jeff Guerdat (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av JEAN PARROT
Ärende: Re: LAN uses.
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JEAN PARROT wrote:

>         Are you up the task ? I will say yes. You helped me last
>    evening in getting this new Vista running O2K with your URLs. My
>    friend on my advise and yours mainly, loaded the CD and all is
>    running. Why would the seller say that it would not ???

Prolly hoped to sell a copy of Office, too.

>  JP>         What dazzles me is the old Win98SE Thinkpad. It refuses to
>  JP>    honour a WiFi card. I can only insert a Dlink 650 in it.
> 
>  JG> I'll wager that's because the card is a Cardbus and/or 3.3v and you're
>  JG> trying to put it into a slot that's PCMCIA-only and/or 5v.  It's
>  JG> physically blocked to prevent possible damage to the card and laptop...
> 
>         All the WiFi PC cards here will work in the G41 Thinkpad,
>    voltage is then not the problem. Specially this Dlink 650. The CD
>    driver is said to be accepted but will not run the card. Still
>    looking into this, this old Thinkpad is connected on RJ-45 but the
>    WiFi would be nice too even if slower. I am mainly trying to see if
>    I erred somewhere.

You said:

    "I can only insert a Dlink 650 in it, any other
    card will not go home to the connector, it has a larger key on the
    connector end that prevents pushing it all the way."

The inability to push the card in completely indicates a physical block 
to me.  I'll admit that it's possible that something is off a little on 
the laptop in question and the tolerances stacked in the wrong direction 
so the cards which *should* install are blocked only by a slightly small 
connector surround.  I can't tell that from afar, however, so my guess 
is that something else is blocking it.  From 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcmcia:

The original standard was defined for both 5 volt and 3.3 volt cards. 
The 3.3 V cards have a key on the side to protect them from being 
damaged by being put into a 5 V-only slot. Some cards and some slots 
operate at both voltages as needed.

My take is that you need to investigate more as to the 
needs/capabilities of both the cards that don't fit as well as the 
PCMCIA implementation in that particular laptop.  Without that, all bets 
are off.  If it's shown that the cards should all fit and work in that 
laptop, then we can look for other causes.  It's possible that the fact 
the DLink card doesn't work may truly imply that the laptop connector is 
fubar and it's just a fluke that you happen to be able to insert it.

-- 
Jeff Guerdat

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
                                                       Stephen Bishop
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