Hallo John and Jerry,
> >... there are three major generations of PCMCIA/PC Card
> >firmware/BIOS & socket service software; plus minor to major
> >variations from the slot-card hardware vendors themselves. Our
> >experience is that you can only use the slot-card hardware with the
> >proper generation of socket services with the proper generation of
> >motherboard..
Hmm. Perhaps I'm a little bit silly. Or I had a lot of luck upto now.
I'm using very different nootebooks from SNI, Azer, Siemens and one
noname. I never had problems with modem cards of different vendors.
The trouble started with brand new ethernet card (100 mb).
They don't work under DOS when another PCMCIA card,
for example a Modem, is present.
With my older ethernet cards, it wasn't a problem, because
CARDSOFT does the job perfectly.
I don't realy understand the problem, because using the same
PCMCIA cards with linux is no problem. Even Multicard with
support for ISDN, analog modem, ethernet and connection to mobil
phones are supported.
OK. I don't have much experience with other types of PCMCIA cards.
For example:
Loading the NE2000 compatible packet driver (pcmpd.com) in DOS,
it tells me, "registered with cardsoft ...".
Loading the new packet driver (pcm100pd.com) in DOS for the
new 100 mb card, (delivered with the card)
it tells me nothing about registration. Calling the supportsoftware
of cardsoft, I get the message, this card is unknown.
I think, there must be a way to tell cardsoft to support this
new card.
> >"Cardsoft" was supposed to cure the problem. However, they still
> >had a large stub (45K to 85K) in the lower 640K of the x86 memory
> >model.
You can minimize this by commenting out the drivers in config.sys
you will not need. For example: I don't need support for memory
cards.
> Often you could actually do better by converting to PC-DOS
> >7/2000 as you suggested. But, when dealing with the card services
> >part of PC-DOS 7/2000, it is really designed to take advantage of a
> >1996 or later motherboard & BIOS.
Perhaps I should change to PC-DOS 7/2000. Does DJGPP still work with
that OS?
>
> >Unless someone is a high-level hacker and likes writing their own
> >device drivers/card services, your SOL :(
Perhaps cardsoft is willing to open sources??? I just asked them,
but got no answer. They only told me to change to windows and that
they don't support DOS any longer... I should ask my notebook provider.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! How should he help me without second level
support!
>
> Perhaps we should advise Klaus to save up for a used laptop with everything
> functioning as it should without unpleasant surprises?
Another solution seems to be to use the dos emulator in linux,
and everything looks fine. That's live!
Best regards
Klaus
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