Alfredo Fernández Díaz wrote:

>> Also I believe you can (must ?) state the IRQ and IO settings on the 
>> driver line in config.sys as this is an ISA (possibly non-PnP) adapter.
> 
> I can't find the syntax anywhere, nor you get any config panel during
> the driver installation...
> 

  The most likely place for this documentation will be in the driver 
package - most likely in a "Readme" file.


> OK buds, I got it to work out of luck (yes, I know I did what you told 
> me to, but it didn't work at the beginning) so let's move on to 
> interesting things.
> 
> Next thing I'll be trying is to get a PCCard Network card running (I got 
> it to work on another laptop ages ago, so this should be pretty 
> straightforward). Any hints, though?

  Do you mean a PCMCIA card or a CardBus card ? PCCARD defines the 
physical size not the interface.

PCMCIA is a 16-bit AT-Bus interface, Cardbus is a 32 bit PCI-Bus interface.

You'll need to check which of these the TP 600 supports - if I remember 
correctly it was one of the first to support Cardbus, which infact means 
it'll actually support PCMCIA or Cardbus.

If your card is a PCMCIA card you will need to install "socket services" 
to be able to talk to the card. If it's a cardbus you don't normally 
need socket services. This is where this now gets "tricky" depending 
upon the card, there are some PCMCIA cards that don't work with socket 
services - the Xircom cards are one type I believe, the IBM Ethernet / 
Etherjet cards (10 Mb/s) do need Socket services and the IBM 10/100 card 
is a cardbus card so it doesn't need socket services.

Some of the more modern cards from D-Link, I believe work with the 
Genmac wrapper technology, the same code you will need for Wireless if 
you wan't to go to 54Mb/s - there are some 802.11b (11Mb/s) cards such 
as the Lucent Technologies Orinoco "Silver" card that is PCMCIA and has 
OS/2 drivers.

I think you have two PCCard slots in the TP600 - you can use one PCMCIA 
card and one cardbus, you can also use one PCMCIA that needs Socket 
Services and one that doesn't like Socket services by adding an "ignore" 
switch to the IBMSS-somenumber-depending-upon-model.SYS driver file.


If you are not experienced with configuring PCMCIA - you will most 
likely hit problems. This technology is far more complex than that in 
current laptops.
> 
> If everything goes well, I'll buy a modern harddisk, possibly a DVD 
> burner and wifi equipment. Any hints here?
>

If you're still talking about the Thinkpad 600 - the harddisk is a 
standard size and connector - just check the physical height of the 
drive to see if it will fit your system and the sector configuration may 
be critical. Check out http://www.os2warp.be - notepads section for 
guidance.

DVD burner - forget it - you wont get one that will fit a Thinkpad 600. 
They didn't exist when this system was available.

WiFi I've mentioned above.

One possible better route for you, depending on whether this system will 
need to be portable or whether it will run locally only, would be to add 
a USB 2.0 card and attach and external USB DVD burner, hub and external 
harddisk case. If the TP600 doesn't have on-board ethernet (which I 
don't think it has) the second PC-Card slot should be used for a 10/100 
Ethernet card that can connect either to your local LAN or to an 
external WiFi router device as used with Playstation and similar games 
consoles via the ethernet connection.

Thinking this through, however, I have to ask if your better pproach 
might not be to buy a more recent laptop with most if not all of these 
features built in from eBAY or elsewhere - it may well work out cheaper 
and will last longer than trying to constantly update the old TP600. You 
could look at a Thinkpad of the T20, T30 or T40 series (I don't think 
the T20's will take an internal WiFi adapter - I could be wrong - the 
T30 and T40 series certainly do). The T20/T30 series are only USB 1.1 
equipped, the T40 series is USB 2.0. On these models everything apart 
from the dial-up modem has OS/2 drivers.

> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Regards,
> Alfredo.
> 
>
Cheers/2

Ed.


 
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