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the ibm development lab in boeblingen, germany has devloped an active isdn card which is available as: - microchannel card - pcmcia card - isa card - and very soon as a pci card drivers are available for os/2 and aix. at this time, i do not know the exact status of the windows 95 drivers. if you need further information, please let me know, i can get you in contact with the development function. > A passing thought on seeing this thread: Germany seems to > be the centre of the world in terms of ISDN kit. It also means > that it's worth checking out German companies for ISDN > PCMCIA cards. In particular look out for AVM and Dr. Neuhaus > brands - these are very well respected there. Last time I looked, > ISDN kit from Germany was very good and very competitively > priced. > > Chances are, manuals in English would be available. > > cheers, > > Andrew > > ---------- > From: Gene J[SMTP:blue@enteract.com] > Sent: Dienstag, 5. November 1996 19:19 > To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu > Subject: Re: Waverunner ISDN PCMCIA Card & Win95 > > > From: "C2" <c2@iaco.com> > > Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 08:55:13 +0000 > > Subject: Waverunner ISDN PCMCIA Card & Win95 > > > > I just purchased a bunch (I'm embarrassed to say how many) of > > Waverunner PCMCIA cards to be used in Thinkpads of various > > configurations. I was assured that this worked under Windows 95. > > Imagine my surprise when after having trouble locating the drivers I > > called IBM and they said there was no Windows 95 support for this > > card. How can IBM sell a PCMCIA product today without a Windows 95 > > driver?!?!?! After all, it's almost 1997!! > > > > I would think with the rapidly growing popularity of ISDN that IBM > > would pay more attention to this. Anyway, I am now going to fill out > > the paperwork to return all these useless IBM Waverunner PCMCIA > > cards. > > > > I hope others learn from my experience. > > That really sucks because it seems that this IBM ISDN device is the > best on the market for mobile users, and I'd figure that there would > be Win95 drivers by now. I'd been tracking it for almost a year now > (I think its been out longer) and was well aware of the absence of > Win95 drivers according to the info on their WWW page, which made no > sense. > > I wonder who they're marketing to, OS/2 users??? > > Anyhow, I hope you can return them and give them hell. > > I know that I'm intending to use a USR Courier I-modem at home with > an ISDN line, and use the 701's internal modem for connections to > POTS service away from home. I'm just trying to figure out how to > get high-speed serial port in PCMCIA format (if such even exists) to > take full advantage of ISDN's speed and additional compression > throughput; hoping that there's a PCMCIA equivalent to the Hayes > serial-ESP IDE card. > > If IBM had the Win95 drivers for their PCMCIA ISDN device, that > would be ideal. > > Good Luck... > -- > Gene <blue@enteract.com> > http://www.enteract.com/~blue > IP #: 206.54.253.122 > IP name: blue.sa.enteract.com > > > > > -- Friedemann Baitinger baiti@herrenberg.netsurf.de