[geeks] Type II PCMCIA CardBus question

[Ido Dubrawsky]

I have the T-Mobile Total Internet plan for my cell phone and the
T-Mobile rep (the corporate rep not the guy at the store) told me that
he would just add my GC89 card to my currently existing plan without
additional cost.  I've heard from others that using your cellphone as a
data modem (either through USB or IR) sucks (at least for GPRS, I
haven't heard the situation with EDGE -- which I presume is much better
and EVDO just rocks,  Verizon however is not my provider).  I was just
surprised that the Toshiba Tecra M4 had a 16-bit Cardbus slot rather
than a 32-bit one given that the damn thing can't be more than 2 years
old in design.

Ido

geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:45:45 -0700
> From: "Dan Duncan" <danduncan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Type II PCMCIA CardBus question
> To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
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> On 1/7/07, Ido Dubrawsky <idubraws at dubrawsky.org> wrote:
>   
>> > I have T-Mobile for my cell provider and I recently bought a Sony
>> > Ericsson GC89 Wi-Fi/EDGE/GPRS card for work (I travel often between DC
>> > and New York and it would be useful to be able to e-mail while on the
>> > train).  Unfortunately my Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet-PC specs say that the
>> > PCMCIA slot in the system is a 16-bit Type II PCMCIA slot.  The GC89 is
>> > a 32-bit card...it fits  my Dell Inspiron 6000.  I guess I'm screwed as
>> > far as using it in the Tecra as it doesn't slide in all the way.  Anyone
>> > know any better?  The T-Mobile rep is sending me a complimentary card.
>> > Should I ask him to send me a GC85 (it's a tri-band versus a quad-band
>> > but at least it's a 16-bit card)?
>>     
> You could always get a cellphone and a data plan and piggyback your
> laptop to your cellphone. I do this between my SonyEricsson P800 and
> my laptop or my Zaurus. (bluetooth or IR or USB for the laptop, IR for
> the zaurus.) I've never used one of the GPRS/EDGE cards, but I assume
> you pay a monthly service fee on them in addition to what you're
> already paying for a cellphone.
>   

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