Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:11:26 -0500 From: Jerry Dunham <dunham@dunham.org> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> Cc: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? Message-ID: <20000803171126.D9228@rider.dunham.org> In-Reply-To: <20000803163654.7764216F@woodstock.monkey.net>; from Jon Hamilton on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:36:54AM -0500 References: <20000803101451.B9031@rider.dunham.org> <20000803163654.7764216F@woodstock.monkey.net>
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On Thu, 3 August 2000 at 11:36:54 -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: > > 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. I discussed this with a friend from Dell Portables over lunch. What we concluded about the design team at The Other Company who designed this we won't share in this nonpartisan mail list (particularly since I KNOW some of those people and respect them). I can only conclude that some marketroid decided to save $.10 by putting only one connector in a slot big enough for two. None of the engineers I know at The Other Company would have done that voluntarily. It looks like you lose. If you want to form a lynch mob and go looking for the marketroid who came up with the brilliant idea to cripple your machine, you have my support. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD (512)335-0674 (H) jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org To vacillate, or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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