[ltp] looking for firewire bus power

Andreas Kemnade linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:26:22 +0200


On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 01:16:10 +0200
Vincent Touquet <vincent.touquet@pandora.be> wrote:

> As the T41p doesn't have firewire I got myself a cardbus card,
> which has a 12V DC small plug where I can feed the card so it
> can provide bus power (its impossible for the card to provide
> sufficient bus power using the 3.3V it is provided).
> 
> Any chance I can get it from somewhere and not involving a wall
> socker ? Those tiny usb fans, what voltage do they run on ?
> 
You can get 5V easily from USB. You need only a DC/DC converter to
get 12V from it.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade