Use pcmcia devices on desktop

Hi peeps I dont know if this is the right place for this post so here goes, I have a SMC Wireless network card that is pcmcia cardbus type, however it did come with a pci to cardbus adapter so that I could use it in a desktop. my question is can I make this adapter device accept other cardbus devices? I have already tried a non SMC network card and Avermedia Tv card the desktop just sits there, I dosnt pick anything up! So it got me thinking maybe there is something built on the adapter that will only let you use the SMC device, If this is the case dose anyone know how to bypass it?

getting any other pcmcia devices to work in my belkin card bridge so I went to ebay and got an internal pci-pcmcia bridge for 30$ or so, it's really handy sometimes to have 2 pcmcia slots right there below my cd-rom drive, especially when troubleshooting customers laptop problems.....

I guess there must be some sort of proprietary driver/interface going on...