Thinkpad 760ED and PCMCIA

Tim Knight/CT

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Sep 30, 2008, 7:24:46 PM9/30/08

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The above machine is a degenerate....it hates me and I know it!!!!!

I have a Linksys WPC11V4 wireless pcmcia card and have tried it with
the following os's.....

WindowsXP, Windows98se, Windows2000 and WindowsNT4

I cannot get it to work on any of them. Am presently installing
Windows95b.

If any of you folks were going to try to make this combination talk to
my Linksys router, where would you start?

(suicide does not count as a proper reply)

CT the Befuddled

Dan O

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Sep 30, 2008, 7:54:30 PM9/30/08

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On Sep 30, 4:24 pm, "Tim Knight/CT" <msgtkni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The above machine is a degenerate....it hates me and I know it!!!!!
>
> I have a Linksys WPC11V4 wireless pcmcia card and have tried it with
> the following os's.....
>
> WindowsXP, Windows98se, Windows2000 and WindowsNT4
>
> I cannot get it to work on any of them. Am presently installing
> Windows95b.
>
> If any of you folks were going to try to make this combination talk to
> my Linksys router, where would you start?
>

ThinkPad Card Services program installed and working okay?

That's not one of those Cardbus adapter (or whatever they call those
things - PCMCIA type III or whatever), is it? (Unsupported for that
ThinkPad?)

Tim Knight/CT

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Sep 30, 2008, 8:52:20 PM9/30/08

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Hi DanO.....

It is indeed a Cardbus adapter......so I need to look for a wireless
card that isn't.......

Do you have any recommendations?

CT

Tim Knight/CT

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Sep 30, 2008, 9:42:16 PM9/30/08

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On Sep 30, 7:54 pm, Dan O <danover...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi again DanO....

I found out how to look for them....(Google is your friend)

http://products.wi-fiplanet.com/wifi/pc_card_16-bit/index.html

Thank you.....

CT the Tickled Pink

Charles Lasitter

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Oct 1, 2008, 5:21:11 PM10/1/08

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On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:42:16 -0700 (PDT), Tim Knight/CT wrote:

> I found out how to look for them....(Google is your friend)

PCCard should work fine in a CARDBUS slot. It's the other way around
that is usually the problem.

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Tim Knight/CT

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Oct 1, 2008, 5:17:47 PM10/1/08

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Indeed you are right, Charles.....but the PCMCIA slots in a TP760ed
are not CARDBUS.....

CT the Discoverer of Rarely Known Facts

William R. Walsh

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Oct 3, 2008, 5:46:37 PM10/3/08

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Hi!

> The above machine is a degenerate....it hates me and I know it!!!!!

> I have a Linksys WPC11V4 wireless pcmcia card and have tried it with
> the following os's.....

PCMCIA or CardBus? It looks like CardBus to me. In which case...

> WindowsXP, Windows98se, Windows2000 and WindowsNT4

...the TP760ED/EL have CardBus controllers, so it should work in theory.
However, M$ Windows has a problem with this--something to do with PCI IRQ
Steering--and since CardBus devices show up on the PCI bus, they don't work.
The Windows Device Mangler claims that the TP760 has problems with PCI IRQ
Steering and that it cannot be enabled.

I don't know that NT has any support whatsoever for CardBus. Its PCMCIA and
laptop/notebook support is minimal. (In fact, I remember an article in PC
Magazine that talked about some of the contortions that companies like
Digital Equipment had to go through to get NT on a notebook.)

> I cannot get it to work on any of them. Am presently installing
> Windows95b.

That may work better. CardBus drivers were available for Windows 95. If they
are also available for your Linksys card, you may be in luck.

> If any of you folks were going to try to make this combination talk to
> my Linksys router, where would you start?

If you want or have to keep Windows 98 or later, use a true PCMCIA card, not
a CardBus one.

William

Tim Knight/CT

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Oct 3, 2008, 6:50:51 PM10/3/08

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On Oct 3, 5:46 pm, "William R. Walsh"

Thank you William.....

Indeed that is what I will do. I gave the only WPC11v3 to my brother
last weekend and he just emailed me that he sent it back to me today.
I traded him a WPC11V4 for it.......now we will both be happy.....

CT the Barter King of PCMCIA

Jim Shorney

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Oct 3, 2008, 11:24:36 PM10/3/08

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William R. Walsh wrote:

> ...the TP760ED/EL have CardBus controllers, so it should work in theory.
> However, M$ Windows has a problem with this--something to do with PCI IRQ
> Steering--and since CardBus devices show up on the PCI bus, they don't work.
> The Windows Device Mangler claims that the TP760 has problems with PCI IRQ
> Steering and that it cannot be enabled.

Dunno what the difference is, but Cardbus adapters work fine in my 760E
under 98SE.

-Jim

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William R. Walsh

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Oct 4, 2008, 1:05:59 AM10/4/08

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Hi!

>> since CardBus devices show up on the PCI bus, they don't work. The
>> Windows Device Mangler claims that the TP760 has problems with
>> PCI IRQ Steering and that it cannot be enabled.

> Dunno what the difference is, but Cardbus adapters work fine in my 760E
> under 98SE.

I tried looking around the IBM web site at the time to see if they had any
solutions in the form of downloadable updates. I found one flash BIOS update
dated sometime in 1999 that sounded promising. It didn't end up making a
difference.

I just changed my mind and switched to a PCMCIA Ethernet card. I've never
come back to it, and I don't use the 760s that much anymore.

William