From: Steve C. (stevec50_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 23:58:47 EST
If you are trying an ADS USB card, they don't work!
--- Dan Wentz <dwentz_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> I've received a few replies to my question about
> adding a USB card to my
> 760EL and I appreciate the time people spent trying
> to help out. I've got
> a couple more questions though.
>
> At 01:27 PM 2/13/01 -0500, Bruce Markowitz wrote:
> >You need to run ThinkPad Utilities and enable
> Cardbus, which assigns an IRQ
> >to the PCMCIA port, NOT to the card
>
> The PCMCIA ports work fine when there's a modem or
> Ethernet card in
> them. It's just the USB that it doesn't like.
> Speaking of ThinkPad
> Utilities though, is this different from the EZ
> Setup? I assume so. I got
> my computer used and the hard drive was completely
> wiped so any manuals or
> utilities that may have been on there are gone.
>
> It was also suggested that I initialize the BIOS,
> which I've
> done. According to the readme file that came with
> the BIOS upgrade it was
> supposed to reboot itself after initialization,
> which it didn't do. It
> just dumps me back at the config menu. Is that
> alright or was it not
> properly initiated?
>
> Finally, how does one change things in the ThinkPad
> BIOS? It tells me what
> I've got and will test devices but doesn't give any
> option for changing
> things. It's very unBIOSlike. Is that all there is
> to it or is there a
> BIOS backdoor I don't know about?
>
> ~Dan
>
=====
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