Old motherboard PCI 2.2?

[mr_wizard]

I have a Gateway PIII 500 machine. Believe its the TABOR II model. It
have the Intel 440BX chipset. Does anyone know if the motherboard is
PCI 2.2 compliant or not? I need to know as the lastest 54g wireless
PCI cards need this and I am looking to set up a wireless network.
Thanks in advanced.

 

[Bubba]

mr_wizard's log on stardate 20 ruj 2004

I have a Gateway PIII 500 machine. Believe its the TABOR II model. It
have the Intel 440BX chipset. Does anyone know if the motherboard is
PCI 2.2 compliant or not? I need to know as the lastest 54g wireless
PCI cards need this and I am looking to set up a wireless network.
Thanks in advanced.

No, it is PCI 2.1, 3.3V and 5V, 33MHz interface compliant...

 

[kony]

I have a Gateway PIII 500 machine. Believe its the TABOR II model. It
have the Intel 440BX chipset. Does anyone know if the motherboard is
PCI 2.2 compliant or not? I need to know as the lastest 54g wireless
PCI cards need this and I am looking to set up a wireless network.
Thanks in advanced.

Regardless of what the wifi card claims it may work.

 

[David Wang]

Intel 440BX based motherboards support PCI Rev 2.1 Bus.

 

[mr_wizard]

Thanks for the replies. Someone on another forum told me they got a
54g card to work on a gateway p2 machine. I did read however on a
broadband site that using such a card in a non 2.2 slot would cause a
'true hands free' access to your router. is this right?

 

[kony]

Thanks for the replies. Someone on another forum told me they got a
54g card to work on a gateway p2 machine. I did read however on a
broadband site that using such a card in a non 2.2 slot would cause a
'true hands free' access to your router. is this right?

What is "true hands free"?

Providing the card works in the board, which I expect it
will, there should be no difference in access to the router.

 

[larrymoencurly]

Someone on another forum told me they got a 54g card to work
on a gateway p2 machine.

I was unable to get D-Link and Belkin 54g PCI cards to work in a Soyo
6BB v. 1.0 mobo based on the older 440BX chipset or any Socket 7
mobos, but the D-Link did work in a mobo based on the Intel 810i
chipset (I didn't try the Belkin with it).