From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 9:36:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.3.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF9537B670 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from woodstock.monkey.net (d55.as15.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.134.183]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.9.1) id LAA02422; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:36:16 -0500 Received: from pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodstock.monkey.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7764216F; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:36:54 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/16/1999 To: Jerry Dunham Cc: Harry Woodward-Clarke , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:14:51 CDT." <20000803101451.B9031@rider.dunham.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:36:54 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <20000803163654.7764216F@woodstock.monkey.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000803101451.B9031@rider.dunham.org>, Jerry Dunham wrote: } On Thu, 3 August 2000 at 0:44:55 -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: } > That might be; the propaganda clearly stated that you could have one } > type II _OR_ one type III, but I admit to knowing nothing more about } > PCMCIA than was necessary to make my card work. Looking at the profile } > though, I see my 16 bit card is too wide to fit in the "top" slot, so } > if it's a type II, you definitely couldn't put two of it in at once. } } Call 'em what you will, these days PCMCIA cards come in two basic sizes, } thin and fat. Some PCMCIA slots will only take one thin one, but most } will take either one fat one, or two thin ones. I can't imagine why } anyone would design a slot that would take a fat one or ONLY ONE thin } one. That just doesn't make sense. I suspect the bug is in your } documentation. When viewed from the side, the PCMCIA opening looks more or less like this: +---------------------------------------------------------+ | | +--+ +--+ | | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ My 16 bit FA-410 ethernet card fits in the bottom slot, but is too wide for the top slot. There is no way one could physically insert two of these cards in the available opening. I have not looked inside to see whether the internal hardware could accept two such cards or not; given Compaq's general tendency to find at least one thing per machine to make hideously bogus, I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that the limitation is strictly one of the opening in the case being deliberately made too small. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message