Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #1219

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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.

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Lewis
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