From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [162.83.95.100] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.51]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 268792 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:27:46 -0400 Message-ID: <44D29480.2020905@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:27:44 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060701 MultiZilla/1.8.2.0i SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: PCMCIA help References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/03/06 05:45 pm, John Poltorak thus wrote : > I'm pretty certain it's a 16 bit card - old IBM credit card token ring > card. But how do I confirm whether it is? > > Yep, it's a 16-bit card. CardBUS cards have a gold grounding strip above the 68-pin connector. See http://www.pcmcia.org/faq.htm for more info. >> If it is a Cardbus card but the controller chipset does not support >> 32bit cardbus, then it probably will work through socket services. ISTR >> that cardbus can gracefully downgrade to 16bit, but that may be wrong. >> Finally, if the chipset supports full 32bit cardbus services then it >> appears as a pci bus to the system, and cardbus cards (well, nic's at >> least) appear as pci cards. >> >> As far as I can tell the Realport is a full cardbus services card. >> Socket services does not 'see' anything to do with the card itself. SS >> will report that the slot is in use but nothing else. That implies that >> it is more than just a point enabled card (althouhg it may be that >> too). These cards among others will work with Veit's special programs, >> such as cbenable which I doubt a non-full-cardbus card would do. >> > > But how do I identify the appropriate socket service driver? > I think we have. We now just need for you to upgrade to the proper one. You need the CardBUS driver kit in order to use *any* card in your slots, CardBUS or PCMCIA. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------