Hawking Technology CardBus 10/100 Fast Ethernet PC Card manual Introduction to Cardbus

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INTRODUCTION TO CARDBUS

Cardbus is the next generation 32-bit version issued by PCMCIA PC Card standard. In addition to support a wider bus (32 bits instead of 16 bits), CardBus also supports bus mastering and operation speeds up to 33 MHz. The 132M Bytes bus transfer rate (compares with legacy 16-bit I/0 PC Card, 20MByte) provides the mobile user to enjoy the high-bandwidth network connection.

A Mobil computer, which equipped with CardBus and properly configured, is the fundamental requirement to use the CardBus 10/100M PC Card. To make sure about this point, please follow the guideline listed below:

Cardbus is designed to support both 16-bit and Cardbus Card. But the legacy 16-bit PC Card slot couldn't accept the CardBus PC Card. In order to prevent the wrong operation, CardBus is thus developed with particular mechanical consideration to prevent it fit into the legacy 16-bit PC Card Slot. If you can't insert the CardBus 10/100 PC Card into the slot firmly reaching the bottom, your notebook probably hasn’t the capability to support CardBus technology. Please check your notebook manual for detail information.

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