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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!amc-gw!dsinet!chusuk!jonn
- From: jonn@chusuk (Jon Noble)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Want info on PCMCIA
- Summary: Can you use IBM PCMCIA Ethernet cards in A1200?
- Keywords: PCMCIA A600 A1200 IBM Ethernet
- Message-ID: <1796@dsinet>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:31:51 GMT
- Sender: root@dsinet
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- I'm looking for more info on PCMCIA as it relates to the A600, A1200, et.al.
- Is this slot PCMCIA 2.0 compatible?
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- I see IBM advertising three new PCMCIA 2.0 cards for PC laptops that provide
- connections to:
- 1. Token ring
- 2. Ethernet
- 3. 3270
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- Do these cards rely on the laptop Intel processor and MS-DOS? Are they plug-
- and-play in the A600/1200? (I doubt it.) Can a driver for AmigaDOS be created
- that would otherwise make these cards plug-and-play?
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- In general, is any PCMCIA card (memory, modem, disk drive) directly "compatible"
- on any hardware platform, or are software drivers required to provide the glue
- between the card and the computer?
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- One last one: if, as I suspect, the answer is that drivers are required, is
- C= or any third parties working on such drivers for specific cards?
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- Thanks everyone!
- -jon
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