Ron Lee wrote:
What's even stranger... I bought this HW off EBay a while back (and it
works well enough, for a beta type poorly designed high school
project). Anyway, on one of the calls to them, I was told to not use
the HW, but just plug the card in directly.

All they really care about is that you have the SW subscription.

Plug the card into what?

Into the computer's PCMCIA slot, where you would normally plug the
SkyBound adapter.