Coming to you from Card Bus B

I was researching for the Internal Blue Tooth and found the thread on the hidden PCMCIA slot.
Took the Cat5/Modem plug board off and there it was.
So, went into BIOS and enabled it, stuck a card in it and it works!
Now gotta find an internal PCMCIA Bluetooth card that will fit.

Aren't these machines amazing!
Rick H...

 

Heh... welcome to the fold, my son.

mnem
In nomine Patris et fillii et Toughbook Sancti...

 

There's always something new popping out about them. Most people using it have either wifi or a billionton BT card there - I've got a PCMCIA-CF card reader while I try to see if I can make it boot from there (via floppy).
Between this cardbus slot, the CN18 with all its modability, and the CN40 that still must have a use (? serial/GPS), there are so many ways to go.
And this is working mainly from spec sheets for the M models. I don't know that anyone has a real spec/repair manual for the P and S models.

 

I am just getting off the ground with the CF-28 and as such, I have no idea what most of the above means!
Rick H...

 

Sorrry, that was just my enthusiasm showing through - I assume everybody has stayed up at night reading and rereading the threads..

Have you read through the threads, especially the stickied ones and the longer encyclopedic ones? Especially look through those started since about Oct. of last year.

There are links to repair manual PDF's here and on the Yahoo Toughbook Group (which you should join as well), also on the toughbook.wikispaces site, which would also be worth a visit, as well as mentions of hardware changes that do and don't work.

The 'adding aftermarket GPS thread', the threads related to the daughter board (the card under the battery that holds the RIM/CDPD modems and the factory GPS, if they are present,), bluetooth and adding RAM threads, internal WIFI threads, aftermarket accessory board (related to the CN18 [connection 18 - going to the 'daughterboard']) threads...
(catches breath)

It's hard to know where to start until you've skimmed through the major threads - and you won't know what you're asking (or how to phrase it) till you do.

Everyone here is more than willing to help, and most members (me included) have only been here for less than 6 months, but you'll frame better questions and get better answers much more quickly after you get a little up to speed. (and you got to the hidden PCMCIA slot faster than I did!! - to I have been a little slow). If you've gotten there then check the FAQ, get a combo card and wifi, add more memory and become 'Toughbook' poor like the rest of us.

I'm done boring you now...go have fun!!