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 267734 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:09:56 -0400 Message-ID: <44D211BD.8000700@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:09:49 -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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 08/03/06 11:01 am, R. G. Newbury thus wrote : > John Poltorak wrote: >> I'd like to try and get a PCMCIA card working on a DELL Inspiron 6000 >> laptop. Has anyone tried this? >> >> AIUI it has a RICOH RL5c476 Cardbus controller according to a PCI >> scanner >> I ran. Which Socket services driver will support that? >> >> > This is a Cardbus card You do not need Socket services. An NDIS > driver should do, exactly as if the card were a PCI card. > > I use a Xircom Realport Cardbus card in my Thinkpad 600E and the > required line is 'device=c:\ibmcom\macs\cbendis.os2' > > (Together with the usual other ibmcom stuff, of course). > Geoff, AFAIK, this is indeed *not* a CardBUS card. Of course, if you're using the same chipset along with a CardBUS card, that would make my statement moot... Are you sure that cbendis.os2 is not just a point enabler driver, which would mitigate the need for socket services? -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------