Does anybody know what is this?

I bought today a PCMCIA USB2 + Fireware for my old laptop and, apart from the ordinary firewire wire, the box contained this kind of USB with the strange connector at the other side... do you know what is this used for? How is this called?

the tip makes it look like a USB charging cord
seem them for cell phones and such

/shrug
i\'d call it a RTFM

mm the matter is that the PCMCIA brings that strange little rounded connector in the left, next to the USB :S

so you can plug them both into the pcmcia card at the same time?

in the picture you posted, are those two ends to the same cable?
no comprende

Yes mm, they are the ends of the same cable. Apart from that, there is an ordinary fireware one.

Just notice the PCMCIA card, with the estrange rounded connection in the left:

So just plug it in. No?

Originally posted by mjps21983
So just plug it in. No?

this is hilarious hahahaha, yes, I put it in and what? The other side, as you can see is the one that should connect into a normal USB entrance in a PC... so I wonder what the fucking thing is this.

30 seconds on google

DC in jack, Power cable to extract extra power from existing USB port or external DC convertor

USB 2.0 devices need more juice, hope you planned on using the card for firewire as any USB 2.0 device will take a dive

i\'m sure the manual covered all this

Originally posted by mm
30 seconds on google

USB 2.0 devices need more juice, hope you planned on using the card for firewire as any USB 2.0 device will take a dive

i\'m sure the manual covered all this

Wait, I\'ve been using the USB port some hours ago without any extra power... so, you mean that I should connect that DC jack to the back USBs of the laptop in order to get more power? hasn\'t the laptop and its components the same power source? I dont understand it well, sorry.

Nope, the manual only covered the plug in instructions and driver installation. Nothing more.

i dont think your model requires it, but some others that have like 4 USB 2.0 inputs certainly might.

USb 2.0 devices need more power then USB 1.1 devices, and the PC card might not fully supply that

have you plugged a USb 2.0 device into the card and verified the speed?  USB 2.0 and a firewire at the same time?

if the notebook aleady has USB ports on the back, why use a pcmcia card?

Originally posted by mm
i dont think your model requires it, but some others that have like 4 USB 2.0 inputs certainly might.

USb 2.0 devices need more power then USB 1.1 devices, and the PC card might not fully supply that

have you plugged a USb 2.0 device into the card and verified the speed?  USB 2.0 and a firewire at the same time?

if the notebook aleady has USB ports on the back, why use a pcmcia card?

I\'ve connected an external HD through the new card and the speed is correct, that proper of 2.0. But it is also true that the HD has a power source on its own.

I bought it because I need to transfer high data amount from the HD to the laptop and vice versa and the USBs in the laptop are old, only 1.1.

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the USB 2.0 card in my laptop requires me to run extra power from USB 1.0... and it only has 2 usb 2.0 jacks. I had no idea it needed this, so now hauling around my lappy is a PITA.