Any way of extending PCMCIA ?

[wearetheborg]

My laptop has two slots.
One PCMCIA slot has a USB/firewire card in it. I want to install a wireless card which would support WPA2. As the usb/firewire card has things jutting out at end, I dont think this would work. Is there any way of connecting a gadget which would give more room for the PCMCIA interface ?

 

[cheesehead]

I have yet to see one. Chances are, it would have to be shielded like nobody's business, and have a rather odd bit of circutry to keep the inductance equal to that of the PCB traces. (Yeah, it would be crazy.)

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: wearetheborg
My laptop has two slots.
One PCMCIA slot has a USB/firewire card in it. I want to install a wireless card which would support WPA2. As the usb/firewire card has things jutting out at end, I dont think this would work. Is there any way of connecting a gadget which would give more room for the PCMCIA interface ?

Why not just get an internal wireless card?

 

[BladeVenom]

I think a PCMCIA to compact flash II might work. Not sure, but doesn't compact flash use the same pin layout as PCMCIA? And the adapter only extends the connection.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
I think a PCMCIA to compact flash II might work. Not sure, but doesn't compact flash use the same pin layout as PCMCIA? And the adapter only extends the connection.

Nope.

 

[imported_goku]

OP, it looks like you should just get a USB 2.0 Wifi device and plug it into your PCMCIA adapter. Oh BTW, is your USB 2.0/firewire card PCMCIA or Cardbus? PCMCIA is 16bit therefore being very slow and Carbus is 32bit. While they've had carbus for ages, the majority of cards are only PCMCIA and BTW PCMCIA and Cardbus are the same pin out, just different speeds.