You should try an older USB 1.1 PCMCIA card
do they really exist? I have never seen one
You should try an older USB 1.1 PCMCIA card
do they really exist? I have never seen one
It could be a power problem. Most pcmcia to USB cards have a socket to plug in an optional power supply, the pcmcia socket doesn't have enough power to run something like a USB hard drive. That's also a lot of stuff daisy-chained off of a 486 slot. How many watts is the motherboard power supply good for?
I have seen them before, but they are not easy to find, I guarantee all the USB 2 ones will be cardbus, but USB 1.1 cards could go either way. Visually the connector edge of the cardbus cards is usually gold colored, and PCMCIA is usually silver, that makes it easier to tell when you cant trust the sellers ad.
Contacted a friend last night, who happens to be an engineer of wince devices. He helped make a few things, mostly Icebox / Salton brand devices. Hopefully he can provide some insight. Quite a few of the products he helped design featured usb 1.1.
I cant find any current references to 16-bit PCMCIA USB1 cards, but like I said last time I saw one was over 10 years ago, but that CF USB1 card proves its possible to implement over a 16-bit PCMCIA bus.
I'm only going based off memory, and it has failed me before in my old age ;-) I am willing to concede that I am completely full of crap, lol. I just seem to recall seeing 16-bit usb card, and I know those CF cards date back to about the time frame but like I said, just based off memory, I could be TOTALLY WRONG, and I will be the first to admit it.I'm still just... a little skeptical that they ever sold a "Windows Compatible" general purpose one that fit into the standard driver hierarchy, only to have all record of them so completely disappear.
I'm only going based off memory, and it has failed me before in my old age ;-) I am willing to concede that I am completely full of crap, lol. I just seem to recall seeing 16-bit usb card, and I know those CF cards date back to about the time frame but like I said, just based off memory, I could be TOTALLY WRONG, and I will be the first to admit it.
Oh and general FYI I was reading of a linux driver being available for one of the CF USB host solutions, so it has successfully been used in a PC, however no mention of Windows/MacOS support, so I wouldnt drop the $100-140 just to find out.
I'm only going based off memory, and it has failed me before in my old age ;-) I am willing to concede that I am completely full of crap, lol. I just seem to recall seeing 16-bit usb card, and I know those CF cards date back to about the time frame but like I said, just based off memory, I could be TOTALLY WRONG, and I will be the first to admit it.