usb2.0 & firewire hub

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Jim said:
I'm looking to buy a USB2 & firewire combo hub.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817111969#DetailSpecs

One thing I can't find in all the specs/reviews:
By what means would this thing connect to my notebook?
I don't have usb2 at present.
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You will need on-board firewire and USB2. If you are missing USB2
and/or firewire on the notebook, then the relative part of the combo
hub will do nothing for you - the hub is just a dumb signal splitter.

The usual solution for adding either firewire or USB2 to a notebook is
with a PC-Card for one or the other protocols. I have never seen a
combo firewire/USB2 PC-Card, but newegg might have one. Since the
PC-Cards usually have with two ports, the hub you are looking at is
likely useless for a notebook computer.


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So, are PCMCIA and pc cards one in the same?

Also, I have a PCMCIA sound card, and, unless I can find an extremely small usb card hub, they physically won't be able to share the 2 slots onmy machine.

I've even searched for ethernet port replicators/hubs with no luck.
 
Jim said:
I'm looking to buy a USB2 & firewire combo hub.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817111969#DetailSpecs

One thing I can't find in all the specs/reviews:
By what means would this thing connect to my notebook?
I don't have usb2 at present.
Click to expand...

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=pcmcia+firewire+usb+combo&hl=en&btnG=Search+Froogle

http://froogle.google.com/froogle_c...0215724&btnG=Search+Froogle&scoring=mrd&hl=en

Yes PC card and PCMCIA are the same thing.
 
Jim said:
So, are PCMCIA and pc cards one in the same?

Also, I have a PCMCIA sound card, and, unless I can find an extremely small usb card hub, they physically won't be able to share the 2 slots on my machine.

I've even searched for ethernet port replicators/hubs with no luck.
Click to expand...

This is a common PC Card problem. AFIK, there is no workaround except
to sacrifice the sound card when using a similarly large-headed (for the
cable end) USB or Firewire card. There are slot extenders, very
expensive, that are used for hardware development, that could make two
oversized cards work in the standard dual PC Card slot. You might look
for a card with the mini-firewire (unpowered!) iLink connector, but
again, I have never seen one.

PCMCIA cards have not been around for several years; they have long been
supplanted with the PC Card standard, and PC Card is the correct name,
although Windows Device Manager still uses the older PCMCIA designation.
PC Cards are being supplanted with ExpressCards. See
http://kb.iu.edu/data/ahtn.html for a primer.

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