Topic: Suggestions for SME on notebook with no NIC?

[Donny Bahama]

I know that PCMCIA is not officially supported, likewise USB ethernet. But I have an old Sony notebook that's been in mothballs which is otherwise perfect for this. If anyone knows of a PCMCIA or USB ethernet device that's readily available and can be got working (hopefully inexpensive, too!) could you please let me know?

[cactus]

I know that PCMCIA is not officially supported, likewise USB ethernet. But I have an old Sony notebook that's been in mothballs which is otherwise perfect for this. If anyone knows of a PCMCIA or USB ethernet device that's readily available and can be got working (hopefully inexpensive, too!) could you please let me know?

From my experience a notebook is not a very good medium to install SME Server on, since it is not a server and most of the time lacks the support for all built in hardware.

[Donny Bahama]

From my experience a notebook is not a very good medium to install SME Server on, since it is not a server and most of the time lacks the support for all built in hardware.

That's certainly true in this case. If the darn thing just had a built-in NIC I'd be good to go.

Still, I hate to give up on it. The notebook isn't of much use for anything else and I can't spare the time to throw together an alternate box to use for a server.

[Franco]

I have a sony vaio as SME server, I'm using a 3com PCMCIA card and worked right out of the box. I'll be able to get the specs of the card tomorrow. This notebook in fact has a internal NIC, but I'm using as server-gateway.

[Donny Bahama]

Cool! Surprised to hear it worked OOB. I thought PCMCIA support was disabled by default.