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Victor Bien wrote:

   One lives and learns!  A borrowed Xircom *cardbus* card did the 
trick.  On downloading the driver I noticed on Intel's site (they bought 
out Xircom in March 2001) that there was a version that was for cardbus 
cards and another for "non-cardbus" ones!!  Having been thru agony 
getting the TP 560X cardbus PCMCIA port up and working I think I now 
recognise the significance of that.  (I still don't know what is in the 
"image" of the Windows 95B system files I had to buy via CD-ROM from IBM 
that makes the cardbus work.  Nor does IBM tech support for that 
matter!!  Installing from a generic Win95B source resulted in the 
cardbus being exceptioned out on startup but which could be activated on 
a session by session basis by reinstalling the driver on the fly!).

   Xircom products have a good reputation but I don't think it is the 
"quality" of the card that accounts for my success.

   I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has a *cardbus* ethernet 
card for sale.  An old 10 Mb/s one will do (I'm not flush with money!).

   The PCMCIA industry got into somewhat of a mess - the usual syndrome 
of competing commercial interests upsetting general interoperability. 
Cards not designed for the cardbus PCMCIA port are iffy as to whether 
they will work with computers with cardbus PCMCIA ports (is the opposite 
true?).  The TP 560X uses the Texas Instruments "PCI-1250 Cardbus 
Controller".  Most PCMCIA cards around seem to be non-cardbus ones. 
That explains my difficulties which have not been dispelled.

Victor Bien
VCB Computing Alternatives (R)
Sydney Australia

>   Does any one here have any information on this one or had similar 
> experience?  I have tried an SMC and three different 3Com PCMCIA cards 
> attempting to connect a TP 560X to my ethernet LAN but they all fail. 
> The card bus works OK because I can use a Microcom card modem OK.  The 
> problem seems to be some incompatibility with the ethernet cards.  The 
> computer in other respects works fine.
> 
>   In the SMC case the driver is always exceptioned.  In the 3Com cases 
> the drivers loads OK but there is no life at the BNC or RJ45 port.
> 
> TIA
> Victor Bien
>