Look for the gold finger strip near the connector. This is a sign of CardBus cards. It's a bare metal strip that makes electrical contact in the CardBus cage to improve EMI shielding.
Usually true, however there are early 32-bit cards which have no copper fingers, and look precisely like a 16-bit card.
The only way to tell is to examine the "keys" on the side of a sample card, and compare to a known 16-bit and a known 32-bit card.
Of course all this is pointless anyway, since if it were a CardBus card, it would NOT PHSYICALLY FIT into the slots of a 1400 or 5300 or anything before a Wallstreet, without modification of course.
Unless, I guess, if you hammered it in. But then you would have a whole lot more trouble on your hands than the drivers not recognizing the card.
Which, of course, proves this point even more since the card wouldnt even show up on the desktop at all if it were a CardBus card (since it would either not fit, or hammering it in would so badly damage the cage), so it must not be, so lets stop talking about that.
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