Re: PCMICA Network and Modem card

2000-01-14 Thread Alexander Clouter
Drew Parsons wrote: > > And battery life seems fine enough with the card inside (about 2 hours). > I > seem to lose a lot of battery life if I run the CD-ROM drive, though. > Although fine for two hours, without it my laptop lasts 4-4.5 hours. My 28.8k modem doesn't drain much if any power, whil

Re: PCMICA Network and Modem card

2000-01-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:34:22PM -0600, Charlie Hedlin wrote: > How hot should a 56k 10/100 combo card get? I have a Xircom I picked up > cheap but it gets hot. I mean hot enough that I have to be carefull not > to burn myself when I remove it if my machine has been on for a while. I > also no

Re: PCMICA Network and Modem card

2000-01-13 Thread Heather
> How hot should a 56k 10/100 combo card get? I have a Xircom I picked up > cheap but it gets hot. I mean hot enough that I have to be carefull not > to burn myself when I remove it if my machine has been on for a while. I > also notice a significant hit in the battery life when the card is > in

Re: PCMICA Network and Modem card

2000-01-13 Thread Charlie Hedlin
How hot should a 56k 10/100 combo card get? I have a Xircom I picked up cheap but it gets hot. I mean hot enough that I have to be carefull not to burn myself when I remove it if my machine has been on for a while. I also notice a significant hit in the battery life when the card is inserted. I

Re: PCMICA Network and Modem card

2000-01-13 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jan 13, lordsaint415 wrote: > I have a Sony Vaio F250 laptop and I would like to know what is the > difference between a normal pcmcia card and a cardbus card. > And which is compatible with Debian. PCMCIA is the old, 16-bit PC Card specification. CardBus is the 32-bit specification, which bri