Grind the bumps of a pcmcia card?

Is there anyway to see if the card is trully 32-bit or if the bumps are
cosmetic?

Or... does anyone want to trade a lan or lan+56k pc card that is not 32
bit for a windows only dlink card?
Thomas Cameron wrote:

> Bad idea - you will be trying to put a 32-bit device in a 16-bit slot. Will
> most definitely not work.
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> ----- 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?
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>
>>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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