FYI, Belkin 10/100BT ethernet CardBus works

Bill Campbell bill
Mon May 17 11:43:08 PDT 2004


I need to use two pcmcia slots on a laptop, a FireWire and NIC.
Unfortunately most of the commonly available NICs now have the RJ45
connector built into the NIC which either takes two slots in the case of
the Xircoms, or has to be in the top slot for most of the others -- as do
the FireWire adapters I've seen.

The only dongle-equipped NICs I could find at CompUSA were a couple of
Belkin units, one 16 bit, the other CardBus.  I just tried the CardBus
unit, and it worked perfectly with Caldera 3.1.1 Workstation, identifying
itself as ``SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139)''.  I'm not real fond
of RealTek cards or dongles, but at least it works.

Bill
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