Grind the bumps of a pcmcia card?

I just went into Performace under System Properties (on Windozs 98) and

it says:
PC Cards (PCMCIA):     32-bit

I think I will have to put the dremmel to good use tommorow...

Rob Wultsch wrote:
> 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.
>> --
>> 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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