From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.26]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 329803 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:53:59 -0400 Message-ID: <44F9E15F.1050301@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:54:07 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060701 MultiZilla/1.8.2.0i SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Next wave of portable device architecture (was: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: WEP Encryption a bad joke??) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/02/06 02:19 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote : > On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:08:07 -0400 (EDT), Stanley Sidlov wrote: > > >> On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:15:01 +0930, Paul Smedley wrote: >> >> >>> WPA offers far better protection than WEP - A package supporting WPA on >>> OS/2 should be available real soon now... >>> >> but only for GenMac and GenMac is not for PCMCIA or PC-Card NICs. >> Right? I want to buy a PC-Card (since there are no 16bit PCMCIA >> cards that do "G") which is supported on OS/2 so I don't have to >> lug my ASUS 330GL around. >> > > One sorta off-topic comment: > I was just reading that PCCard devices are on their way out and being > replaced on most new laptops by something called ExpressCards. So, is > it just a matter of time before this will be the way to add a NIC > rather than a PCCard? And, does anyone know if there is support > planned for ExpressCard devices? > > That's a good question. I don't know enough about the physical architecture of ExpressCards to know whether we have OS-level support as yet. That said, here's some interesting stuff: http://www.expresscard.org/web/site/qa.jsp. ThinkPad T60's have a combination bay: The ExpressCard slot is on top, and the PC Card slot is on the bottom. ExpressCard/34 is 34mm wide (standard for notebooks) and the ExpressCard/54 is 54mm wide (desktop format?). These cards use either PCI Express architecture or USB 2.0 architecture, so I suppose it is possible that we have support in OS/2 already, but as I haven't been able to get eCS to properly install on a T60 as yet (got past the SATA hard drive issue by specifying "Compatibility" SATA mode in BIOS, but I get a trap at the first reboot during install which I haven't yet diagnosed), I can't say whether we even recognize the slot or not. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------