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Re: Hot Swaping Ethernet cards
g_prosser@cix.compulink.co.uk (Gerry Prosser) said the following on the
auspicious date of 98-04-29:
>In-Reply-To: <199804272346.TAA15050@pike.sover.net>
>What FixPack are you running with ? This was a major problem with Warp 3,
> but was fixed for some ThinkPads (notably 760s) at Warp4 GA. I seem to
>recall my 755CD needed an early FixPack to allow the card to removed (and
> live). My new 770 behaves impeccably - I don't even need to have the
>card inserted at boot time.
Cool! My Home & Away adapter needs to be inserted at boot in my 765D for
it work, but swicthing cards around after that works fine. If the card
isn't in at boot, ethernet just doesn't work -- no errors.
Might this be a software problem
> But that is the IBM Ethernet II Credit Card
>Adaptor, now discontinued I believe. Also check whether there is a newer
>PCMCIA driver on the ThinkPad site for your particular model.
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