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generic USB PCMCIA card support ?
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Sarc
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Nov 6, 2007, 04:02 PM
 
I have a 1GHz TiBook wich only has USB 1.1 ports. I'm looking for a PCMCIA USB 2.0 card, howerver the only one I could find is a Macally card, wich is sold for ~50USD around here; there are however generic cards available, much cheaper, at ~14 USD.
Does anyone know if Mac OS X has built-in drivers for these cards ? So far in my experience OS X has great support for generic 3rd party hardware (currently I use a floppy drive and a Bluetooth dongle, with no aditional drivers), however I don't feel like buying the card to find out it didn't work.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.
:: frankenstein / lcd-less TiBook / 1GHz / radeon 9000 64MB / 1GB RAM / w/ext. 250GB fw drive / noname usb bluetooth dongle / d-link usb 2.0 pcmcia card / X.5.8
:: unibody macbook pro / 2.4 Ghz C2D / 6GB RAM / dell 2407wfp - X.6.3
     
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Nov 7, 2007, 04:20 PM
 
Its hit or miss. Some will work, some will not. This one will:

ADS Turbo USB 2.0 PCMCIA w/2 Ports Expansion... (USBX-2001) at OWC
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