Intel LAN+Modem56 PC Card PRO/100 User Manual

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4-54 PRO/100 LAN+Modem PC Card User’s Guide

the resources assigned by the LAN1xxxxxx keywords in the CARDID.INI

file. The LAN1MEMORYBASE2 entry can be ignored.

A driver failed to load, and I’m NOT using
Card and Socket Services

A. Verify that a block of memory for use by the PRO/100 PC Card has

been excluded from any memory manager being loaded. Memory manag-

ers are generally loaded in the CONFIG.SYS. The following example is

given for EMM386.EXE and a PRO/100 PC Card loading at its default

memory address of D2000:

DEVICE=C:\PATH\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D200-D3FF

B. Verify that power management has been disabled and the PCMCIA

socket is powered/enabled in the computer system’s CMOS setup. These

settings may not be present in all machines. Consult your computer

documentation for information on how to access and modify the system

setup.
C. Reboot the machine by turning off the power and turning it back on

again (cold boot). If the driver still fails to load, the cause is generally a

resource conflict. Common causes of resource conflicts include sound

systems, other PCMCIA adapters, and built in ROMs. The resources

required for a PRO/100 PC Card include a memory window (MEM

keyword), a LAN interrupt (INT keyword, and an I/O address

(IOADDRESS keyword). The default settings are indicated below.

Review your computer documentation to determine what resources are

available, or use a trial and error approach. The table below shows a

suggested trial and error sequence. If you use this method, be sure to add a

memory exclusion from C000-DFFF to the EMM386 line until a suitable

memory location has been found. Then the memory exclusion can be

reduced to an 8K window. Perform a cold boot between each trial to

ensure that the PRO/100 PC Card and PC Card sockets are completely

reset.
When the PRO/100 PC Card driver is loaded it either reads a configura-

tion file or uses command line parameters to determine which resources it

should use. The following is a list of driver types, driver file names, and

the configuration method used by each:

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