Customer Reviews

Sabrent PCI-PCMCIA PCI to PCMCIA CardBus Host Adapter Controller Card

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OS auto-installed the driver for the Richo chip that this card uses, on first boot, without feeding it the driver disk. If whatever pcmcia card ye use, can't find the resources to play nice, just swap this card to a different PCI slot and you'll be fine. Sometimes yer computer's nit-picky where it likes which cards to be. One small Caveat: This picture's wrong. It shows a double height slot for taking double thick cards. That's why I bought this'n over the others. But, that isn't what I got. Twas only single height slot. I had to remove the bracket & widen the slot out with a dremmel to fit my double thick Xircom card. Not a deal-breaker, but should be noted. Amazon's product descriptions are a bit skimpy where it counts sometimes . . . YMMV

Bottom line: A solid inexpensive solution to offer a second life to your extra PCMCIA cards.

No matter what I did to get this little bugger to work, it would not cooperate.

You may fare better, but buyer beware, 'nuf said!

Worked in XP but Vista would not allow a connection using the latest driver and utility download from the Sabrent site. The utility interface showed a strong signal from a b, g, n type source but no connection to that hotspot. Same location on XP machine allowed a connection with this USB device. If support gets back to me fast and resolves this, I will write another review, otherwise I hope expect Amazon to allow a fast refund. The Sabrent site mentions no problems or cautions regrading Vista installations.

Was unable to get this to work in my PC at all. No support, nearly impossible to find out who really made the card and how to get support from them. Had to send back to amazon for refund. Try a different brand and design, this one isn't going to work for you.

It was easy to put in the PC Dell Optiplex GX620, PCMCIA Adapter uses a Mini CD disk to install drivers with WinXP Pro. I had no problems what so ever even after installing with XP's Service Pack 3 RC2, and yes I'm not afraid to take on a challenge even if I'm visually impaired.

I have been primarily using the card for a Wireless Notebook Adapter. All that I've tried worked as expected.

I picked up a pair of these adaptors with the intention of building a small linux powered wireless access point that could do adaptive routing between a wired lan, wifi, and 3g evdo. I quickly found however that the chipset used in these cards is not well supported under linux for pcmcia cards which require DMA since the card does something strange in the way it handles interrupts. I'm sure it could be fixed in software, but I'm not a great kernel hacker nor am I motivated to become one. That said, these seem to work fine under windows XP using drivers available through windows update. Your mileage may vary, but if you intend to use linux your pcmcia cards this is probably not the device for you.