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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] PCMCIA
  • Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 19:09:09 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> James Miller wrote:
> >
> > BL3 has no PCMCIA functionality yet, and it's not
> > clear when that will be implemented.
>
> As soon as I can set up PCMCIA networking myself. I have
> been trying to buy a cheap PCMCIA network card and I finally
> got one three days ago. However, I discovered that the card
> needs a ?dongle? to work and it didn't have one. Back to
> square one.

Yeah, you gotta watch out for those. Plenty of second hand computer
stores here in the US are selling PCMCIA NIC's for a couple of dollars -
but without the dongle. They want to charge $25 for the dongle. Money
grubbers. Anyway, I did manage to pick up an old 10base2 PCMCIA NIC about
a year ago WITH dongle for $5. I'd be happy to send it off to you if
shipping is reasonable: I have no coax cable or coax capable hardware
(terminators and so forth), so I doubt I'll ever use it. I think it's
NE2K compatible: I did have it working under BL2 at one time (when I was
in Russian and was using someone's coax network). I'll let you know if I
find it feasible to send it your way. I'm assuming your network has the
necessary coax elements?

James




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