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Date:  Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:50:04 +0200
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From:  Stan Goodman <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] PCMCIA, Cisco 352, and Thinkpad T21

In a thread on the ecomstation.support.networking newsgroup there has been
lately a thread discussing PCMCIA support. Specifically, there is talk about
installation of "PCMCIA Support" from the eCS website.  I thought that the
necessary system support for PCMCIA was installed by default in T21 Thinkpads,
and as far as I have read on this list, at least in connection with Cisco 350
series cards, additional system support is not required. I would like to have
confirmed (or otherwise) that the only software that I need to operate my Cisco
card is the Beta driver others have given me and the XWLAN control program.

I notice that there are some nine files with names PCMCIA.* on my T21, and only
four on my desktop system (both run eCS v1.1); that would seem to indicate that
the eCS installation on the Thinkpad recognizing the presence of a PCMCIA slot,
installed the needed support, and I needn't do more. Is that correct?

Several people here have installed cards like mine in machines like mine, and
seem to be operating them successfully. Is it really true that there exists no
summary of the steps involved in installing the card and getting it to work?

My repeatedly expressed concern about this may seem a trifle paranoid. My
problem is that I do not have the card in my hands now, so cannot experiment
with it; it is abroad, waiting for me to pick it up. When I do that, I will
need for it to *work*, and it will be too late to ask questions and do
experiments, let alone carry on discussions with people who have already done
what I need to do. Installation and configuration should be by then pretty much
reduced to "Plug 'n' Play". If there is someone in the area of Washington DC
who has gone through this, and who would permit me to consult with him then by
telephone in case of need, that would increase my confidence.

At this point, I have the Beta driver installed, apparently properly, and the
XWLAN widget sits in XWP (and seems to recognize the presence of the driver).
Now what?

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

"When your enemy falls, do not rejoice." -- Proverbs 24:17

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . we need believing people. -- Adolf Hitler, 26 April 1933
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