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Compatible with Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, and XP or Mac OS 8.6 or Greater
Rating: 2.88/5 from 17 reviews
Depends on your laptop model...
Rating: 2/5
I have a fujitsu E series laptop with Windows XP. The cardbus will only work with USB 1.1 peripherals.
I bought an IOGEAR 2.5in USB 2.0 external hard drive enclosure and this hangs when connected via the card, sometimes spontaniously rebooting my pc.
Writing to my new TDK USB 2.0 40x CDRW (via Roxio OR Easy CD Creator) also fails. Yes I've tried powering the cardbus (and the enclosure) to no avail. Iogear support was non responsive.
Even after a clean install of XP (for other reasons) the problem with the ION persisted.
Then tried the card with the same CDRW and Drive enclosure on my friends Dell Inspiron with XP - no problems!
So you may be delighted or you may not.
Works fine with PC chipsets
Rating: 5/5
This is a truly great product - I just put it in my Dell Inspiron 8100 and connected my USB 2.0 Maxtor 2000LE external harddrive and it works like a champ. The review by 'the great entity' regarding not working with PC chipsets is completely incorrect - it almost caused me not to buy this product. Pay no attention - this card works as advertised. I also have an IO Gear KVM switch that I'd also highly recommend - you can't beat the price, specs, or the fact that it includes all the cables for 4 devices. Way to go IOGear!
Mostly bad results
Rating: 1/5
I had an earlier IOGear 1-port card for a Dell Inspiron 2650 (XP), and I never got it to work. I just got the GPU202 2-port card for a new Dell Inspiron 300m (XP), with the same results. This time I downloaded the newest driver - still no luck. The laptop recognizes some peripherals plugged into the GPU202, but they won't function.
In any case, this is the last time I will waste any money on IOGear.
I bought an IOGEAR 2.5in USB 2.0 external hard drive enclosure and this hangs when connected via the card, sometimes spontaniously rebooting my pc.
Writing to my new TDK USB 2.0 40x CDRW (via Roxio OR Easy CD Creator) also fails. Yes I've tried powering the cardbus (and the enclosure) to no avail. Iogear support was non responsive.
Even after a clean install of XP (for other reasons) the problem with the ION persisted.
Then tried the card with the same CDRW and Drive enclosure on my friends Dell Inspiron with XP - no problems!
So you may be delighted or you may not.