[ILUG] PCMCIA for a desktop ?

[Wesley Darlington]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:20:29PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 07:48:51AM -0500, Wesley Darlington mentioned:
> > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:35:16PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> > >  Is there a handy way of doing this ? Like a linux-supported PCI card ?
> > I have a D-Link DWL-500 in a PC - it's a D-Link DWL-650 pcmcia card with 
> > a Ricoh RL5c475 pci-to-pcmcia adapter. Which works with linux.
> 
>  Where did you get the RL5c475 ? 

It came with the DWL-500.

> No sign of it on Scan/Dabs etc.

Now that you mention it, I don't know where one might buy one separately.
Worst case involves buying a DWL-500 and selling the wireless card to 
somebody... :-)

One possibility for *a* pci-pcmcia bridge is...
  http://www.solwise.co.uk/networkingwireless.htm 
(No idea how linux-supported this is but in theory a pci-pcmcia bridge in a
desktop should be as supported as a pci-pcmcia bridge in a laptop.)

Wesley.