Re: [WinMac] DLink 560TXD multi-function PC Card & PowerBook 1400

Tim Scoff(casper[at]nb.net)
Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:23:58 -0400

        If it is a 32 bit CardBus card it shouldn't work because the
PCMCIA slot in the 1400 is only a 16 but slot. That may be the
source of your problems.

>Has anyone out there had any success with getting the DLink 560TX or
>560TXD cards to work with a PowerBook 1400? From little blurbs in
>their documentation I gather that it has been done. However, DLink
>no longer supports or recommends this combination. Unfortunately, I
>found this out after already taking delivery of the card. And it
>works so well otherwise. So even if I have to jump through some
>hoops and mumble a special chant, I'm willing to experiment. Any
>ideas, suggestions, drivers or firmware out there? Or some generic
>PC Card drivers that can be user-tweaked to recognise a card of my
>choice?
>
>I suspect that if I can just get the "thing" that does the
>recognition of the card as a valid PC Card then I can hack the
>rest...
>
>BACKGROUND:
>The DLink 560TXD is a multi-function PC Card that provides a 10/100
>NIC, 56K modem and FaxModem on a single-slot card that uses no
>dongles and leaves the lower card slot free. It is multi-platform,
>multi-OS, multi-NOS, etc.
>
>While recommended for the usual plethora of WIntel stuff and for
>PowerPC Mac laptops, this seems to actually mean only 3400, 2400 and
>G3 PowerBooks...
>Vincent Cayenne
><mailto:vin@audiophile.com>
>
>"Crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts"
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>
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Tim Scoff, MCSE
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