Hi Bastiaan,

I know what you are going thru!

When I got a notebook several years ago, a PCMCIA modem came with it, and 
although the instruction pamphlet said it work with DOS if the Slot & Socket 
Services provided by the notebook manufacturer was installed, The SSS was 
nowhere to be found.  The notebook support site would not talk DOS, only 
Windoze.  (They have since gone out of business.)  I think that I downloaded 
almost every PCMCIA software on the web, almost got one to work, then the 
notebook went belly-up.

Placement of the driver and SSS in Config.sys and/or Autoexec.bat is critical.

PCMCIA slots do not have an address, but have to be referred to using the 
driver/sss software which would direct COM2 modem traffic to Slot0 (or 
whatever).

CardSoft seems to be one of the drivers/sss that *should* work.

Phoenix <www.phoenixtech.com>? has a good discussion of PCMCIA cards and SSS.

3Com has "enabler" software.

Intel has some/one that will work with Intel chips.

I can send you a list of all the PCMCIA software that I have if you would 
like.

I recently got a "real" PCMCIA modem from Dalco, "just in case,"  (Zonet 
ZFM5600.) Fortunately it has an Intel chip set.  Some versions of this model 
do not have an Intel chipset.  Unfortunately, it does not come with SSS and 
once again refers to the manufacturer of the computer to provide it.

Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona

Bastiaan wrote:

. > Hi Glenn, deleting windows will not solve a DOS problem.
. > This is a DOS problem: carddrv.exe is a DOS program for DOS 5.0 and
. > higher.

. > I know you don't like windoze, I don't like it either. But... since DOS
. > can not 'yet' deliver the pictures from my camera and windoze does...

. > We have to find ways to use recently developed appliances for win in a
. > DOS environement, modems, printers, USB-ports, .... or we will certainly
. > lose the battle for DOS. Or should we call it *the war on windoze*?

. > CU, Bastiaan

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