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Re: Hot Swaping Ethernet cards



I think that I posted there is a new PC-Card service file at the Thinkpad
files area.  This might "fix" this problem.

James

jeffj@ro.com wrote:

> 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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