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Airport slot, compatible with PCMCIA ??
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Eric the Fen
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Apr 5, 2001, 01:25 AM
 
Does anyone know the pin specs for the airport connector ?? I'm wondering if i can use a PCMCIA device (not a wireless device) like a microdrive or compactflash memory device in its place...

all opinions welcome...

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lgerbarg
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Apr 7, 2001, 04:56 AM
 
It is not a PCMCIA slot. It is a raw 16bit I/O Bus from the Key Largo controller. The Apple Airport cards are standard Lucent cards minus the antena, and with a few resistors on them moved so that they will turn on in 3.3v mode. They then write a custom driver that implements a minimal subset of the logical signalling they need to make the card happy.

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eep!
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Apr 8, 2001, 11:08 AM
 
So does that mean you could add an antena and use an airport card in any pc-card slot? or are the voltages different?
     
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Apr 16, 2001, 08:27 AM
 
You can if you hack open the card, and move some SMD resistors. I have seen one person who did that with a 2400, and mounted a set of internal antenna's from an iMac in it. I personally don;t have the schematics or info to that handy.

Otherwise something might start smoking, voltage differences are a pain ;-)

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