What sort of Ethernet hardware will work in the palmtop?
The most obvious requirement for an Ethernet adapter that will work in the palmtop is that it be a PCMCIA card. Second, it must not draw more power than the palmtop can supply, or roughly 150 milliamps. Finally, it must have drivers that allow it to work with the palmtop’s non-standard PCMCIA hardware. Unfortunately, this eliminates the vast majority of PCMCIA Ethernet adapters. Although many of them meet the power requirements, there are almost none that have drivers that allow them to work with the 200LX. The only two types of Ethernet card that work with the 200LX are the Silicom Ethernet Card (www.silicom.co.il) and the Accton (www.accton.com) EN2212/6 cards. The Silicom card was specifically designed with drivers from the company to work in the HP DOS palmtops. It ships with all necessary drivers and documentation to allow you to use packet-driver applications (more on this later) or log in to a NetWare server. The card itself has a female jack on it, and a proprietary twisted-pai
