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Reply With QuoteYeah, they make them, but your better off just purchasing a USB WIFI card.
Here is a link to a USB -> PCMCIA
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=224020
So I've got a PCMCIA Wifi card for my Dell Axim and a cf/pcmcia adapter for it to work in the Axim, and I was wondering if there are any usb to pcmcia adapters out there that I could hook up to my car pc to use the same cards. All I've found so far are PCI to PCMCIA and ISA to PCMCIA (Elan Adapters).
-Nick
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Yeah, they make them, but your better off just purchasing a USB WIFI card.
Here is a link to a USB -> PCMCIA
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=224020
Yeah, but thats no fun
-Nick
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The USB wifi cards are just a pcmcia card inside a usb/pcmcia adapter inside a little box. I've got an orinoco gold one, works great. It was like $42 from cdw.
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Reeeeeeeeealllly.......... I might have to look into that then
Edit:CDW has it for 115 now and its on backorder.
Edit2: And where the hell have you been hiding gizmomkr? no posts for what? 9 months? and then you come back and you're pulling part numbers for obscure apple parts off the top of your head :P
-Nick
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Lexar makes a USB PCMCIA adapter mainly used for reading flash memory, so I don't know if it is a true PCMCIA slot emulation. I am currently looking for an Orinoco Gold USB for a good price (around $50) so that I can still wardrive in the car. But if you are planning on using the wireless for more standard uses I would have to agree with the first solution of just getting a standard USB wifi client. Should be only $30 or so if you can wait for a deal to come along or a little more if you need something now.
I once tore into a Siemens Wireless access point, and found a no name pcmcia card inside with a fun little external antenna connector.
The card was blank except for an FCCID # I looked it up in the online database, and quickly found the manufacturer and a driver for it (zcom)
Dave - I dont doubt your findings, but I tore into my SMC 2662w usb wifi adapter today - no such luck
Im wondering if this was a slightly dated approach to usb wifi.
Linksys makes one big enough, never looked inside.... the US robotics one looks about the right shape - anyone else find pcmcia cards inside there stuff ?
MP3DUB - About 2 years. After my system was built and all the bugs were worked out, I started to vist less frequentlty. I changed jobs, and keep very busy most of time. Sumer is slow, and I started to crave a VGA display. After I started reading up on things, I decided to gut the entire car, and redesign the whole system. So Im back.... As for obscure part numbers - I have always been a hardware nut.
Im just glad to see so much activity on the board, such an interest from the general public in mobile computing, and a bunch of the old gang still hanging around
Orinoco, avaya, and a few more with the orinoco gold card, basically any USB client called gold something, will be a pcmcia card in an adapter. Mine is the avaya one, i don't remember how I found it on CDW, I think it was sorta hidden.
Dave
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