Grind the bumps of a pcmcia card?

What happens when you try to insert the card (with the laptop turned off)? I
have an old P150 laptop that has no problems with cardbus cards with the bumps
on them.

> 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?