Powerbook Duo 2300c Wireless Help

[theos911]

I have a Powerbook Duo 2300c. I was looking to do this with it. Is there any way to do that without a built-in ethernet port through use of adapters and such? I know about the various docks(I have a plus), but I can't manage to find an etherdock anywhere .

Any help is appreciated :b&w:

Theodore

 

[techknight]

no, you have to have SOME kind of ethernet device attached to the Duo's PDS connector in the back. Otherwise efforts are futile unless you are a hardware and driver designer.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

I dunno about that! It seems to me, that since Apple announced a PCMCIA Card Dock for the Duos and that the Ultra-Dock seems to be designed specifically to house the 1400's PCMCIA Daughtercard with the T-REX PCMCIA ASIC on the bottom of the card cage PCB, it ought to be fairly easy to figure out which of the Duo's full width PBX bridged '030 "slot" signals need to be routed to the half wide PCMCIA Card Headers on the T-Rex/Card Cage. After that, it really ought to be just a matter of hacking the "Dock's" DeclROM to indicate that the PCMCIA Manager is "Present."

This has been a pet project of mine for MANY YEARS now. I used to have shots up of the Card Cage installed in the HDD Bay of a Duo. I intended to use a single height PCMCIA HDD in the bottom slot and a wireless card (with the smallest, most perfect, antenna housing I've ever seen) in the top slot . . .

. . . then I got and then maxed out a 1400c and put the SuperDuoProject™ on hold after falling in love with "Beater's" LCD Real Estate and Heavenly KBD. :

 

[theos911]

@techknight Thanks, that is what I needed to know

@Trash80toHP_Mini Also thanks, but I missed about 90% of what you said xx(

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Don't worry about missing most of what I said, that was really for technight.

It was late and I probably wasn't as clear as I should have been, but this kind of thing belongs in Hacks & Development. So I'll dig up my research, hopefully find the modified Duo, and post some pics and diagrams in a new thread..

 

[theos911]

Cool, I'm a visual person, and also it was 6 in the morning and my coffee hadn't kicked in yet.

A new post with diagrams and I'll probably know what you are saying.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

 

[techknight]

I dunno about that! It seems to me, that since Apple announced a PCMCIA Card Dock for the Duos and that the Ultra-Dock seems to be designed specifically to house the 1400's PCMCIA Daughtercard with the T-REX PCMCIA ASIC on the bottom of the card cage PCB, it ought to be fairly easy to figure out which of the Duo's full width PBX bridged '030 "slot" signals need to be routed to the half wide PCMCIA Card Headers on the T-Rex/Card Cage. After that, it really ought to be just a matter of hacking the "Dock's" DeclROM to indicate that the PCMCIA Manager is "Present."
This has been a pet project of mine for MANY YEARS now. I used to have shots up of the Card Cage installed in the HDD Bay of a Duo. I intended to use a single height PCMCIA HDD in the bottom slot and a wireless card (with the smallest, most perfect, antenna housing I've ever seen) in the top slot . . .

. . . then I got and then maxed out a 1400c and put the SuperDuoProject™ on hold after falling in love with "Beater's" LCD Real Estate and Heavenly KBD. :

Well, this could lead to a homebrew PB540 card cage Even though apple made them, they arnt common. PB1400s to sacrifice are more common.

I have a working PB1400 that cosmetically is shot. but hey, has the card cage

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Pull the card cage out of the 1400 and check out the T-Rex ASIC sittin' there right on the bottom. All we need to do is noodle out which of the PBX Bridged '030 Slot Signals lead to which of the card cage's header interface pins!

Coincidentally, the card cage mounts all the IR-Talk hardware as well! }

< wonders if T-Rex would work on a IIsi's UN-Bridged '030 slot! 8-o >

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

I dredged the link to the "Room of Duo" SCSI <-> PCMCIA Card Cage hack up from the Preipherals Links Project. Notice how conveniently the Ultra-Dock seems to be for mounting a PCMCIA Card Cage (like the one from the 1400) and this SCSI based version proves the point!

One has to wonder why/how Apple managed to derail the PCMCIA UltraDock after its announcement . . .