Jim said:
So, are PCMCIA and pc cards one in the same?
Also, I have a PCMCIA sound card, and, unless I can find an extremely small usb card hub, they physically won't be able to share the 2 slots on my machine.
I've even searched for ethernet port replicators/hubs with no luck.
This is a common PC Card problem. AFIK, there is no workaround except
to sacrifice the sound card when using a similarly large-headed (for the
cable end) USB or Firewire card. There are slot extenders, very
expensive, that are used for hardware development, that could make two
oversized cards work in the standard dual PC Card slot. You might look
for a card with the mini-firewire (unpowered!) iLink connector, but
again, I have never seen one.
PCMCIA cards have not been around for several years; they have long been
supplanted with the PC Card standard, and PC Card is the correct name,
although Windows Device Manager still uses the older PCMCIA designation.
PC Cards are being supplanted with ExpressCards. See
http://kb.iu.edu/data/ahtn.html for a primer.
Q