|||it[...]has a[...]carbus thus 32bit, and from my understanding 
|||my old laptop is a 16 bit PCMCIA slot and wont support it
|||[...]no idea[...]if it ever worked
|||  northof60

|Apparently a cardbus will not work in a 16 bit slot,
|but a 16 bit will work in a cardbus(32bit) slot.
| northof60
|
You have answered your own question (i.e. "card is not backwards-compatible").

|my model of laptop only takes a 16 bit PCMCIA card Type II. 
|[...]brands[...]that may work[...]
|
Have people in The Great White North got so much money
that they ignore the Used Goods marketplace?

|...if I can get one up here that is, in the frozen tundra
|
Are people who live where the effects of Global Warming are most obvious not Green?
Do they not observe the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle thing?

I would think people in remote regions
--especially those who are looking for ancient technology
which will be used with an ancient OS--
would be familiar with that well-known aution / used goods site.

Put your search terms into the search engine there and see what turns up:
Ethernet + PCMCIA + Type-II + 16-bit + Windows-98


BTW, when posting here, ticking the **preserve your spacing** box
and inserting 2 carriage returns now and then is a Good Thing(tm).
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1201462494

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