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thecats@interlog.com (The Cats) wrote:

>djohnso@nmsmn.com (Douglas Johnson) wrote:
>>>In article <817185846snz@longley.demon.co.uk>,
>>>   David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>Come on. There must be SOME people out there using a 750Cs Thinkpad and
>>>>a Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet Card. How do I get it to work under Windows for
>>>>Workgroups ???
>>>>
>>>>What version of Sockets and Services do I need?
>>>
>>>I just set up a 750 with a Xircom card last week.  Here's the problem that I
>>>ran into:  The system recognized the card, and all of the netware drivers
>>>loaded ok, EXCEPT it would not attach to the server!  With this being the
>>>case, if the autoexec is setup to launch you directly into Windows, you get a
>>>Windows error message that prevents Windows from loading (I forget the error
>>>message off hand - it was something along the lines of incompatible network
>>>shell or somehing like that).  Anyway, I don't know if this is even remotely
>>>close to what you are experiencing, but my solution to the problem was to do
>>>away with ALL of the PCMCIA drivers.  Don't load CS, SS, et.all.  In
>>>addition, set your EMM386 line in CONFIG.SYS to exclude D000-D1FF.  That
>>>should, I would think help solve your problem (and free up some of your
>>>conventional memory as well).

>I had *two* problems (actually solutions) pertaining to my problems.  First off,
>The TP wanted D000-D2FF excluded (memory hungry).  Second, for some
>reason, Xircom told me that I needed to install the card at prot 320h.

>After that, <pfft> smooth sailing.

>BTW, Xircom also mentioned that Card and Socket Services are _not_
>required with their CreditCard Ethernet adaptors.  The driver will complain
>a little bit, but (as I see everyday on my Toshiba) it goes like greased
>lightning.

>Good Luck!
>Steve

Try Xircom costumer support at cs@xircom.com. Worked great for me!