Den Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:48:08 -0800. skrev Jeff Liebermann:

> Donald G. Davis <dgdavis@blackhole.nyx.net> hath wroth:
>
>> I was given an old Dell Latitude CP laptop with 160 Mhz processor,
>>running Win98SE. I would like to set this up to access the Internet from

<SNIP>

> It's a 166 or 233 MHz processor.
>
> Basically true. I have a P133 Compaq something laptop that works just
> fine with a few PCMCIA wireless cards (Orinico Silver) but is a total
> loss with USB devices. The difference is that with older PCMCIA, much
> of the protocol processing is done in hardware on the card, while it's
> done in software (i.e. in the driver) with USB. Just compare the size
> of the respective drivers.
>
> The DLink Cardbus adapter might be an oddity. It's difficult to tell
> because you didn't bother supplying the model numbers (or the exact
> laptop model). DLink has several models with radically different
> chipsets inside but similar sounding model numbers. The older 16 bit
> ones did much of the processing on the card and should work. The
> newer ones are similar to USB and do it all in the driver. I'm rather
> amazed that you were able to insert a 32bit PC Card/cardbus device
> into a laptop that only has a 16bit PCMCIA slot.

It's not often that one gets the chance to correct you, Jeff, so I'll
pounce on the occasion here ;)

The Dell Latitude CP series of Laptops has got 2 CardBus slot, and not
PCMCIA slots. AFAIR they were the first line of Dell laptops that got
CardBus. Link to the specs :

http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...ojav/specs.htm

They are quite good machines, and runs Linux quite well as long as you got
the max 128 Mb ram they can take. XP runs on them as well, but don't
expect a speeddeamon.

I've used the 233 Mhz versions with a Atheros 5213 based PCCard without
any problems, under both OS's. Actually the first 60.000+ networks I
collected during my wardrives, were collected by that laptop. Later on, I
converted one of them into a digital pictureframe, and another one has
been made into a selfcontained Wardriveing blackbox, and was installed
into a taxicab for a month (netted me 30K+ new networks for my Wigle
stats, which is quite good over here in Copenhagen).

J.D. "Dutch" Schmidt
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