S Zaveloff wrote:
> Although I originally asked this on the eCS install newsgroup, it
> strikes me that this list might be a better venue for the question.
> 
> After migrating eCS 1.1 to 1.2 on a Dell Latitude CPx, the PCMCIA
> modem did not work. I installed the cardbus support that is on
> the eComStation site. I did and it worked. The only problem I have
> now is that the PC Card Director recognizes my PCMCIA modem after
> booting but does not assign it any resources unless I remove it
> from the slot and reinsert it. It then shows as COM2 having been
> assigned an IRQ, etc. Is there some way to get the resources
> assigned without having to do this?
> 
> The suggestion was made to:
> 
>  > Go to System Setup-> PC Card Utilities-> Auto Configurator.
>  > Select the modem card on the left (do all of them, since you
>  > likely won't know which one will be configured), and Add them
>  > to the right. Save, and exit. Now, your modem should work.
> 
> I checked and all four modem entries had already been listed on the
> right.
> 
> The modem works just not without removing and reinserting it.

The only drivers you really "Need" to run PCMCIA cards are

PCMCIA.SYS  and  IBM2SSxx.sys

The "gotcha" is that the IBM2SSxx.sys is machine specific (in fact 
cardbus chipset specific.

Each version of this (IBM2SS01.sys, IBM2SS04.sys, IBM2SS14.sys etc), 
supports a different set of IBM Thinkpad laptops.

That's the point, the IBM supplied PCCARD (PCMCIA) support is meant to 
be used with IBM Thinkpads. If you are lucky and your Dell laptop 
happens to use the same chipset as an IBM Thinkpad, things might work - 
or at least might work most of the time (perhaps it doesn't quite 
initialise the card at startup for example).

The best solution would be if you installed the DELL socket services 
driver, however if you don't have these or if Dell haven't produced this 
for that particular model (for OS2), if the chipset is a texas 
instruments one you can try to use Dani's SS2TICB driver instead - it 
covers a whole range of TI chipsets and it might just fix your problem.

Cheers/2

Ed.


 
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