At 10:53 PM +0000 9/24/03, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
>| > Upon recieving the motherboard (digital audio) I noticed what
>| > appears to be a pcmcia slot.  This is supposed to be where the
>| 
>|  It is not a standard PCMCIA slot, it is tailored for the Airport.
>
>   On the other hand, I ventured plugging in a Lucent card in that
>slot and it was recognized by MacOS (it showed up in that hardware-
>listing Application).
>
>   No idea whether it would have worked, I had no access point at
>the time.
>
>	mjl

Everyone seems real sure that it's not a standard PCMCIA slot.  I'm 
not an expert so I can't disagree, but. . .

I've also heard that (at least the early) base stations used a 
standard PCMCIA card as the guts and you could disassemble one, take 
the card out, and put it in an iBook or whatever.  I thought the only 
difference between an airport card and a standard PCMCIA card was the 
lack of a built-on antenna because the antenna was built into the 
case of the machine you were putting the card into.
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