From: Benjamin Koh (benkoh_at_leland.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Sat Apr 17 1999 - 06:24:20 EDT
This may depend on your brand of LAN/modem card. Some are more evil than
others at screwing your TP. I run Win95 and have a 3Com 3CCFE575BT in my
560X. I installed the drivers only once. If I remove and reinsert it, it
just beeps and logs back onto the network immediately. I've never
installed it while it was in hibernation; I just stick it in while the
TP is running. Two seconds later I'm on the network. If I suspend or
hibernate I just leave the card inside; it logs off and powers down
together with the system. Upon resuming it takes maybe 5 seconds longer
than if there was no network card, but otherwise it's fine. Ditto for
unhibernation.
Try either leaving the card inside while it's in hibernation or
inserting it when the TP is running. Also, when you remove the card, do
you do anything other than click on the icon in the taskbar and select
"Stop xxxx card?" That's all you need to do to power down the card for
ejection. If you do anything else, like deleting the adapter from
Control Panel, you may be removing the drivers as well, forcing Win95 to
ask for the CD-ROM. If all this doesn't fix the problem, extract the
appropriate drivers from the CD-ROM and put them in a convenient
directory. The next time Win95 asks for the disk, redirect it to the
directory with the drivers.
Benjamin
LightSide wrote:
>
> I do have a TP question. At my internship site I have to use my TP and lan/modem card to hook up to their
> network. This is fine (another beautiful justifcation for my laptop). However if I have the TP in hibernation (via
> windows 95), and install my network/modem card then unhibernate, it says that it found new hardware and
> tries to install drivers even though it's database should already have record of the card. This is highly
> annoying since I have to keep my 95 rom with me at all times for I never know when 95 will decided it wants
> the rom.
>
> My question is.... IS THIS NORMAL?!!
>
> Robert
>
> P.S. Os/2 people, I'm trying to get it's networking features hooked up as a backup to 95 or even as a
> replacement.
> Robert Mears
> Certified Key and Button Pusher
> robertm_at_az.com
> OS/2 Warp v4: Because you deserve more than an os designed for games
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