Card Families

1. Ethernet adapter

2. Token Ring adapter

3. Ethernet + Modem / GSM

4. Fax-Modem / GSM adapter

5. SCSI adapter

6. I/O cards: RS232, LPT, RS422, RS485, GamePort, IrDA®, Radio, Video

7. Memory cards

8. harddisks

9. 2.5" harddisk adapters

For desktops there are PCMCIA slots for ISA and PCI bus available.

Source: http://www.lapshop.de

Linux Compatibility Check

With the command cardctl ident you may get information about your card. Put this information into /etc/pcmcia/config.opts if necessary. But this may not be enough to get the card to work, but works sometimes for no-name network cards or modem cards. If you get a card to work or have written a new driver please don't forget to announce this to the developer of the PCMCIA-CS package David Hinds . Look the current issue of his file SUPPORTED.CARDS to get information about supported cards.

Since there are not all cards mentioned I have set up a page PCMCIA Cards - Unofficially - Supported by Linux .