From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 13:27:35 EST
You need to run ThinkPad Utilities and enable Cardbus, which assigns an IRQ
to the PCMCIA port, NOT to the card
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Wentz <dwentz_at_earthlink.net>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 12:41 AM
Subject: 760EL Enabling USB in BIOS
> I've got a Thinkpad 760 EL running Windows 98. I'm trying to use a Belkin
> USB card but have run into trouble. The card was detected by Windows as
it
> should have been but it doesn't work. Windows says the card wasn't
> assigned an IRQ by the BIOS. I upgraded the BIOS to be sure it will
> support USB (now date 12/9/99) and the card still doesn't work. This is
> the first time I've tried to fiddle around with the BIOS on a laptop so I
> don't even know if I'm looking in the right place. Normally if you press
> F1 during startup you'll go into the BIOS. On the Thinkpad it goes into
> Easy Setup. Is this the same thing? It doesn't look the way I'm used to
> BIOS looking and there doesn't appear to be anywhere to change settings or
> enable/disable ports. In the Test part of Easy Setup I see 2 USB icons at
> the bottom (USB 3 and USB 4) but they don't seem to do anything. Is there
> something else I should be doing?
>
> Any help or guidance would be appreciated.
>
> ~Dan
>
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