pcmcia usb card?

Does anyone know of a pcmcia usb card that can be used with
a
Mobilepro? I'm considering getting a Mobilepro 780 and
unlike my 880,
it does not have USB. Most of the USB cards I find are
cardbus so that
won't work.

Thanks.

Andy

I had been searching for one for a while for a 16-bit PCMCIA
USB
adapter for my MobilePro 780, but it seems like, although
possible,
nobody really got around to making them because of some
chipset issue.
 I can't be certain that are are *no* non-cardbus PCMCIA
USB adapters,
but I haven't heard of any.  If you find one, please tell
me the
brand/model and where you found it.

-Elijah


On 3/18/06, Andy Ruhl <acruhlgmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a pcmcia usb card that can be used
with a
> Mobilepro? I'm considering getting a Mobilepro 780 and
unlike my 880,
> it does not have USB. Most of the USB cards I find are
cardbus so that
> won't work.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andy
>

On 2006-03-18 acruhlgmail.com wrote:

> Does anyone know of a pcmcia usb card that can be used
with a
> Mobilepro? I'm considering getting a Mobilepro 780 and
unlike my 880,
> it does not have USB. Most of the USB cards I find are
cardbus so that
> won't work.

  Yes, the Ratoc CFU1U is a CF card (8-bit) and uses the
slhci driver
(SL811HS chip).  The in tree driver doesn't work, but I
have an updated
version that does that I have been working on occasionally
for a few years
:/.  However, if you want USB you would be much better off
getting a
system with ohci (even if you already had one without it)
since the chip
is slow and has some bugs (such as not working with low
speed devices
connected to a hub).  It does not support isochronous
transfers, so no
audio.  The Ratoc card is expensive, too.  Cypress has a
newer chip that
would potentially be better, but the errata includes some
serious issues.

Matthew Orgass
darkstarcity-net.com