PCMCIA Woes ...

[antonye]

I've got a very old AST 910N (486 DX4/75) laptop running Windows 95, that has a couple of PCMCIA card slots in it: 2x Type II, 1x Type III.

I recently got hold of a 3Com 10/100 (3CXFE575CT X-Jack) network adapter so that I can hook this into my home network and pull files off other machines instead of using LapLink.

The problem is that I appear to have all the right drivers installed (I'm not sure exactly what system devices I need installed) but the Control Panel only recognises one card slot rather than two.

As I've never used laptop cards before, I don't know what I'm doing wrong as the card is just not being recognised at all.

The other problem is that this laptop has no CD-ROM drive, otherwise I'd be tempted to stick a later version of Windows on it.

Anyone give me some pointers as to what System Devices I must ensure are installed and also how to go about checking that the card/slots are being recognised properly?

Thanks!!

[Fubarian]

well, if you got your nic working, you could copy the win98 (off the 98 cd) directory on to your HD, go into dos, delete (deltree) everything except the win98 directory...then run setup from that (c:\win98\setup) it'll act just as a cd would, and it'll never ask you for the cd...but...as for gettin 2 to work...couldn't help ya on that one...mine never gave me problems, but mines a lil newer

[Jallentino]

Sounds like a bad slot. You know they make CDroms that hook up via PCMCIA cards. I just sold one and they work great.

[Darren Wilson]

This is the third duplicate that I and other mods have found with regards to this popst, by the same person. I am closing this one and any more duplicates will be deleted.
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