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On Fri, 16 May 1997 14:57:01 -0700 (PDT), Steve Parker wrote: > >On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Paul Khoury wrote: > >> > I bought my machine used in January and think it is just great. The >> >12.1" TFT screen is great. The lame little IBM Home & Away 14.4 >> >modem/10bT Ethernet works fine in it. If you need ethernet, plus a spare >> >14.4 modem for $35 or so you can get them from Damark. >> > >> Just out of curiosity, how do you get the Home & Away adapter's network >> portion to work in OS/2, or any other OS? Thanks. > > It supposedly works in OS/2 without modification, and to get it to work >with Win95 you have to flash the modem code with a utility called >hawin95.exe which sets it up for Win95 only. It is rumored that even then >it will only work with the first release of Win95. I couldn't say for >sure one way or another. > > The utility is on this page.. > http://www.networking.ibm.com/nes/nespcmci.htm > > Which links you to here.. >ftp://ftp.networking.ibm.com/pub/products/lanprods/pcmcia/hawin95.exe > > It works for me in Win95. I haven't felt the need to try OS/2 on the >notebook, though I do use Warp 3.0 WC on the desktop. I also got another >H&A card to work on a Sharp 3040 for a friend. Good luck with it. It is >a pain, but worth it if you can get it to work.. =) > >Steve Would that possibly be the reason that the took it off the market was because it's a pain in the rear to install? It should at least have installations based on the Windows 95 GUI, OS/2 PM, etc., instead of just DOS text mode. I ran it in an OS/2 Window, and little did I know that the installation used extended graphics, so I had to close the program, and open up a full screen. Although it's reliable (as I type, it is connected to my ISP, because the internal one needs to be fixed by Easyserve tomorrow), I don't like the proprietary enablers, etc. But the one think that's good about it is IT'S CHEAP. That's why I bought it. Regards, Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net