PCMCIA and USB on A1200, would it work?

[Argus]

I been having some fun finding out compact flash and wireless work on my A1200's pcmcia slot thanks to some clever programmers out there.  While doing some checking on Type II pcmcia cards, I noticed that there are quite a few pcmcia cards available with USB ports. Does anyone know if someone has written a driver for such a card and if the Poseidon USB stack would work with it?  It would be a really cheap way to add USB to the A1200/A600 without opening the case and could sell a lot of copies of Poseidon too.  I know you can add a Subway USB controller onto the internal clockport but a PCMCIA USB card would save the internal clockport for something else (like my SilverSurfer) and make it easier to attach USB peripherals only when you need them (like a printer, etc.).

[Argus]

@ncafferkey

That's too bad about no 16-bit usb cards.  The same thing probably applies then to Firewire, etc.  Funny how there are WiFi 16-bit cards (I'm using a LinkSys one with the excellent driver you wrote...job well done!!!).

@klesterjr

Thanks for the info.  I'm not giving up the search though, maybe there is a card out there???

[Argus]

srg86 wrote:
Otherwise, there is a USB controller that you can connect to your clock port header, then route the USB socket to the blanking plate on the back.

I can't remember where you get them from though.

srg

Subway from e3b.

[Argus]

@adolescent

Isn't there a shareware evaluation version of Poseidon?  Maybe that could be used for testing the driver, limited use, etc.?  I'm sure if Chris Hodges? made the price right, a lot of people would buy Poseidon for a pcmcia card USB setup.

@leirbag

Good work hunting that down!  I don't see why that wouldn't work (though it hasn't been released yet).  Perhaps NCafferkey would know how to write a driver to make it accessible to Poseidon?  He wrote the driver for the Prism2 wireless cards (works great!).  In all fairness, to compete price-wise with Subway, it'd have to cost less than $50 or so, because Subway with Poseidon USB I've seen go for around $100 new.  I do think it would be neat to have another option, adding USB without tearing apart your Amiga and cutting the hell out of the em shielding to fit the Subway.  Thank God Commodore engineers had the foresight to put that pcmcia port on the A600/A1200!