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another PCMCIA goody!
« on: January 07, 2004, 10:24:28 PM »
Hi All-
I was wandering through a Staples (office supply store in USA) and saw a wall of blister-packed pcmcia cards for laptops.  The new one (to me) was a USB port mounted on the pcmcia card for about $50.  Of course, no Amiga drivers.    Eeeek!   First wireless net cards and now USB cards, both highly desirable expansions of my A1200, and both out of reach for want of a driver.  Is anyone working on this problem?  Is it just way more difficult than a naive non-programmer like me can understand?  Or is the "classic" Amiga so dead that nobody wants to decorate the corpse with new grave goods?  I would be willing to buy drivers that let me use such cheap and powerful extensions.   Right, - me and maybe 13 other fools who blindly refuse to be assimilated by the Bor-.. er... the M$ empire.
Oh well.
CRL ;-)
 

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Re: another PCMCIA goody!
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2004, 06:07:31 PM »
Hi All-
It is my impression that some of the wi-fi cards I looked at were 16 bit.  I can't remember about the USB card.  Does the existance of linix drivers for these cards mean there is some hope of someone having the information to do a port to ami?  There might be hope? :-o

Yours-
CRL