Grind the bumps of a pcmcia card?

Bad idea - you will be trying to put a 32-bit device in a 16-bit slot. Will
most definitely not work.
--
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
(512) 454-3200 Main
http://www.camerontech.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Wultsch" <robert.wultsch@asu.edu>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 10:28 PM
Subject: OT: Grind the bumps of a pcmcia card?


> Background: I have 2 laptops, one of which is ancient (pentium 100).
> This laptop I had a mother of time getting windows to work on it and
> Lilo and grub just don't plain work... Any ho I have a D-link 650
> (non-prism based, not that it matters) that I would like to use in the
> cheap laptop.
>
> The Problem: The laptop that I want to use this fairly new card in is
> rather old. So old in fact that it dose not support ?cardbus? (the cards
> with the bumps). What are the chances that a pcmcia card will funcion if
> I grind the bumps off of the card so that it will in to an old pcmcia
> slot? My orinoco card does not have the bumps and works in my ancient
> laptop...
>
> What do you guys think?
>
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