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More info?)
Ronald Hands - I did just that; took them down to the store for help and
got it. Seems there is an upper and lower slot. Thanks.
Jeff Liebermann - You were right; a l6 bit slot it is. You guys were
great and everything is working fine. Thanks again.
"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:29:23 GMT, "John Imp" <jonimp@verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Have a Linksys BEFW11S4v4 wireless router set up. At a local store was
> >advised a Linksys Notebook adapter would work in my IBM Thinkpad; but it
> >won't go into the PC slot and I didn't want to force it. Are there
> >different sizes? What should I have bought?
>
> Don't force it. They're different bus widths and therefore have
> slightly different connectors. Your unspecified model IBM Thinkpad
> probably has a 16-bit PCMCIA slot. You cannot insert a 32-bit
> "CardBus" type wireless card into a 16-bit PCMCIA slot. However, a
> 16-bit card will fit in either. In general (there are exceptions)
> the faster 802.11g wireless cards come in 32-bit CardBus flavour,
> while the slower 802.11b cards use 16-bit PCMCIA.
>
> See:
>
http://www.pcmcia.org
> for some details.
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> Jeff Liebermann jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us
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