Brendan Hughes

Anyone tell me if I can do this?

Would like to buy a D-Link PCMCIA card (one of these ) to get USB slots on my ancient Pentium 1, 100Mhz laptop (Tosh Satellite 110CT).

Laptop has Win98SE but no CD-ROM drive, so any driver that comes on CD-ROM with the card will be useless.

The D-Link site has no drivers or support available.

I don’t know if there’s a minimum spec for the PC to run the card, such as processor speed 166Mhz. (There was for my cable modem )

Does anyone expect this kind of thing to be plug-and-play, will it work from generic drivers in Win98, or am I wasting my money buying it? If it works from generic drivers, I can then transfer the proper one by copying it on desktop drive to a flash drive – but I need the generic ones first!

Many thanks

Brendan

bladerider

Win98E should recognise it. It says on the website that no drivers are needed as it is a standard usb host controller. So you shouldn't have a problem.

Brendan Hughes

Thanks . I'll tell you on Christmas Day when he opens it and tries to fit it

JoeyDeacon

I would bet it doesn't work. There are actually two standards with PCMCIA cards, normal PCMCIA and the more modern cardbus. They are both physically the same and the cardbus card will fit into your laptop but it won't be recognised by your computer.

The only way I know this is because I tried to put a PCMCIA modem in an old Pentium laptop last year. Bought what I thought was a PCMCIA modem (was actually cardbus) and it didn't work. Took it back to the shop and it worked in their laptop. Took me ages to work out why, even the bloke in the shop had no idea why it wouldn't work.