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Contribs.org Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Donny Bahama on June 07, 2009, 06:36:47 PM
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cool! Surprised to hear it worked OOB. I thought PCMCIA support was disabled by default.