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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