Cardbus gigE?

[cmetz]

Has anyone seen a CardBus 10/100/1000BaseT gigabit Ethernet card?

I've been looking and not finding... I'm somewhat surprised that the usual suspects haven't done it yet.

 

[spidey07]

Wouldn't it have even more bus trouble than a 100 Mbit card? Maybe the size of the 10/100/100 chip?

 

[cmetz]

CardBus == PCI with some hotplug glue. Same PCI chips can be glued into CardBus (for example, see the Intel Pro/100 CardBus, which is an 82559 + glue). So I don't think bus is a problem.

The Intel Pro/1000MT boards have one chip on them that does pretty much everything, and the chip is basically the same size as the 82559 we all know. The Broadcom BCM5701 is about the same deal. So I don't think chip size is a problem either.

I can see a legitimate marketing argument that notebooks just aren't that fast and so it doesn't matter for most users. I of course want this for purposes that are very unlike "most users"

There's rumors of the usual Taiwanese suspects getting ready to release 10/100/1000 chips, maybe when those flood the market I'll see CardBus adapters. Or more likely, when I buy a 10/100 CardBus adapter and the return period has expired...