Re: [9fans] Wireless PCI Card

[W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org>]

Paweł Lasek wrote:
> On 6/6/07, W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org> wrote:
>> Rodolfo (kix) wrote:
>> > Yes, Plan9 supported hardware.
>> >
>> > In the wiki "Supported hardware" page, I saw some devices (mostly
>> > PCMCIA), but I am not sure if I can find in the shops or if is old
>> > hardware, if is PCI, ...
>> >
>>
>> There are also IDE cable to multi-socket PCMCIA, CF and other card 
>> adaptors,
>> some in FDD housings, others just 'loose'.
> 
> However this won't support non-data PCMCIA cards, so it wouldn't help.
> I have yet to hear about someone making IDE interface to anything
> other than storage,

Google will find you some...

> and PCMCIA and CF cards have an IDE mode which is used for
> flash/microdrives. But you can't control WiFi with IDE.
> 
>> HTH
>>
>> Bill
>>
> 
> 

Granted, the 'bus attached' (PCI) PCMCIA/Cardbus adapter is more flexible.

And agreed there is not a lot of stuff marketed that uses IDE for other than HDD 
or their emulators, but that is convention and sparse interest in doing 
otherwise, not a technical limitation.

An IDE channel is just another 'mildly specialized' parallel port at the 
hardware level.  One can do a great deal with those with a bit of coding.

Bill