Re: [Thinkpad] TP380ED pcmcia ethernet

obstreperous

Hey come on some of us are dummies!
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] TP380ED pcmcia ethernet

> > i'm a owner of a ibm thinkpad 380ed (ThinkPad 380ED 2635-5AS to be
> > more precised) and i'm looking a pcmcia ethernet card for my laptop
> >
> > at this point, i've bought already 2 pcmcia cards and none of them
> > works
>
> Any card that can be physically inserted into the machine should 'work'.
> I'm pretty sure this machine is a cardbus-compatible machine using the
> Texas instruments PCI-1130 controller.
>
> If I am wrong and it is not a cardbus machine, then a cardbus card
> cannot even be inserted (well, without force and breakage).
>
> Now, the bad news.is that the PCI-1130 cardbus controller is very picky
> under versions of windows prior to Windows 98SE, and even then the
> drivers need to be very carefully set (forget plug and play). The main
> reason I upgraded one machine from W95OS2 to 98SE on a TP560X was to get
> an obstreperous ethernet card recognised.
>
> The controller has no problem with non-cardbus (16 bit) cards; look for
> legacy NE2000-compatible cards for greatest compatibility. I could sell
> you one cheap, but mine are in a box in storage 4000 miles from where I
> am now. Alternately, upgrade your OS to something modern.
>
> David R.
>
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