We use PCMCIA WLAN cards in various embedded systems for wireless access. However, they are getting harder to find since most vendors have switched to cardbus.
Does anyone know of a vendor/source which is promising long term availability of PCMCIA WLAN cards ???? (i.e. 5+ years)
Thanks, Stuart
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Forget PC-Card, it is dead... Reason is the movement towards 802.11g, which is 54 Mbit. Can't do 54 Mbit using PCMCIA. USB seems the way to go at this point.
The fact that 802.11g is mainly needed to increase the number of nodes in the system, rather than increase the throughput of a single node does not change this unfortunately...
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10 Mbit Ethernet interfaces are still readily available at low cost, even though the 100 Mbit (and faster) standards have been around a long time.
Iosoft isn't the only company introducing new 802.11b products, and we are all working hard to ensure the longevity of the standard, using PCMCIA, CF, or other interfaces.
Ulf, I have great respect for your work, but in this case I think you are being unnecessarily provocative and alarmist; is this part of an Atmel agenda to convert us all to embedded USB?
Jeremy Bentham Iosoft Ltd.
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No, I dont represent Atmel here, but I think that WLAN cards don't have a long lifetime, and I see that CF is disappering from new products (802.11g) but USB will remain.
-- Best Regards Ulf at atmel dot com
It may be less than ideal, but to say "can't do" is sweeping. If there is demand, someone will make it.
Not sure I follow the logic?. USB makes sense for short-haul, node-node designs, but there are many embedded apps it cannot touch. Atmel have an ARM device comming with USB, CAN and Ethernet 10/100MAC, which sounds a usefull 'embedded bridge' device. Ethernet does not seem to be going away.
-jg
Let me Clarify, You can build a 54 Mbit WLAN chip with a PCCARD interface but you cannot get the 54 Mbit throughput over PCMCIA. As I said in the first post, there are reasons to have a 54 Mbit PCCARD, but from what I have seen so far, there is nothing out there.
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I doubt that.
Maybe I'm missing something, but my 54 Mbps Wireless PC Card from NETGEAR (32-bit CardBus WG511) works just fine and is available all over the place!
I know Linksys and other manufacturers make 802.11g cards as well, so I don't understand why you say "from what I have seen so far, there is nothing out there"??
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maybe it's a naming problem??, i just read a bit and it seems that PCCard refers to the 16bits version and CardBus to the 32bit version (33MHz with bus mastering)
not only that, you can also get USB2.0 and Firewire expasion cards
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