I'm trying to get a D-Link DFE-670TXD PCMCIA network card to work on my old HP Omnibook 425 laptop. The computer has Card and Socket Services version 1.08. But the drivers complain that I need v2.0 or 2.1.
I've never used PCMCIA on a DOS laptop so I'm kind of clueless as to what to do next. Google hasn't been helpful either. Any ideas?
sorry, that card won't work, and you can't use a newer version of Card&Socket Services in the Omnibook.
You need to find a card that supports the HP palmtop series which use a similar pcmcia chipset and C&S Services as the Omnibook.
Such cards include the the Socket EA+, Accton 2216 and maybe the Netgear FA411.
Another way is to use a parallel ethernet adapter.
lolo799 wrote:sorry, that card won't work, and you can't use a newer version of Card&Socket Services in the Omnibook.
You need to find a card […] Show full quote
sorry, that card won't work, and you can't use a newer version of Card&Socket Services in the Omnibook.
You need to find a card that supports the HP palmtop series which use a similar pcmcia chipset and C&S Services as the Omnibook.
Such cards include the the Socket EA+, Accton 2216 and maybe the Netgear FA411.
Another way is to use a parallel ethernet adapter.
Ah, too bad. I have none of those at home and although the Netgear is available on ebay it does lack a dongle. I can always rig a serial cable to a PC - but that solution is pretty cumbersome and I'd hoped to avoid it.
Attached are the OmniBook 600CT CardSoft and CardView folders. Not sure if these are useful. I rescued the folders from a defective drive, so something might be missing.
The chipset they used either predates or doesn't conform to the standard, cards had to be designed on purpose for the OmniBook series.
You can run the utility tellme.com to see what chipset it detects: Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards
Could you list the content of the Cardwoft folder from your 425?
You can always try Cardware 7 from http://www.tssc.de/, it supports a VLSI pcmcia chipset, but maybe not your model.
I couldn't find the folder. Where is it supposed to be?
The only relevant part I found was in CONFIG.SYS:
1rem Install OBCIC, the Omnibook PCMCIA modem card recognizer TSR, with 2rem generic modem recognition turned on. 3rem Make sure OBCIC is installed after OBMGM... 4 5install=d:\omnibook\obcic.exe /GEN 1
Tellme output:
1C:\VOGONS\TELLME.COM 2 3Tell Me The PCMCIA Host Adapter Version 2.25.1 (Mar 31 1997) 4Copyright (C) OSITECH Communications, Inc. 1994-1997. All rights reserved. 5 6Testing for PCI BIOS ... No PCI BIOS detected. 7 8No recognized PCMCIA controller detected.
Trying to load the NIC driver as is:
1C:\NIC\DFE-670\PKTDRV\dfe670pd.com 2Packet Driver for D-Link DFE-670TXD Fast Ethernet PC Card, v1.00 3Card Services is not found. 4Registration for Socket Services has failed. 5***I/O failure*** 6 7C:\NIC\DFE-670\DIAG\dfcd.exe 8D-Link DFE-670TXD Fast Ethernet PC Card Client Driver v1.00 9Socket Service response is error. 10 11C:\NIC\DFE-670\DIAG\dfcd.exe /chk 12D-Link DFE-670TXD Fast Ethernet PC Card Client Driver v1.00 13 14[PC Card Environment] 15Card Services : Not Installed 16Socket Services : Installed 17Adapter 0 : Unknown 18 19[Socket Services Information] 20Total # of Adapters : 1 21 22# of Sockets in Adapter 0 : 4 23SS Version : v1.00 24 25[SS Implemented By] 26HP CVD slf 27Vendor's Version : v0.00 28 29C:\NIC\DFE-670\DIAG\lsl.com 30Novell Link Support Layer for DOS ODI v2.20 (960401) 31(c) Copyright 1990 - 1996, by Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 32 33The configuration file used was "C:\NIC\DFE-670\DIAG\NET.CFG". 34Max Boards 4, Max Stacks 4 35 36C:\NIC\DFE-670\DIAG\dfe670.com 37D-Link DFE-670TXD PC Card 16-bit MLID Driver v1.00 (2001-02-19) 38Copyright(C) 2001 D-Link, All rights reserved. 39 40Duplex mode: Full Duplex. 41NWay disable. 42 43IRQ 11, Port 300, Mode Address B8B8B8B8B8B8 L 44Max Frame 1514 bytes, Line Speed 100 Mbps 45Board 1, Frame ETHERNET_802.3, LSB Mode 46 47Adapter RAM error. 48DFE670-DOS-6: The adapter did not initialize. DFE670 did not load.
Attempting to use the OB600CT Cardsoft:
1SystemSoft Socket Services 2.1 OmniBook Version 2.02 2Copyright 1993 SystemSoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 3Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995 Hewlett-Packard Company All Rights Reserved. 4 5OmniBook PCMCIA adapter not found 6SystemSoft OmniBook Socket Services not installed 7 8SystemSoft Card Services 2.1 Version 2.06 (2256-12) 9Copyright 1993-1994 SystemSoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 10*** Installation Failed: Socket Services Is Not Release 2.10
The system then halts execution and even CTRL-ALT-DEL does not work. I had to press the reset button and remove the relevant parts from CONFIG.SYS.
Attempting to install Cardware 7: the setup program asks for a platform but the OB425 isn't listed and I couldn't find the "Controller Autodetect" option that the setup program recommended. Is my controller PCIC or TCIC? I tried to proceed anyway but when asked to select PCIC/TCIC/TACT Socket Services I didn't know what to pick. So I let the default be and pushed on.
1DPMS 1.44 Copyright (c) 1992, 1994 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 2Card Services/386 Level 5.02 - Version 7.00 - Release 27-Sep-2007 3(C) Copyright 1992-2007 by APSoft. 4All rights reserved. Disassembly or decompilation prohibited. 5 6Please, specify serial number or press ENTER without any input for run 7evaluation version 8 9CD0700-009-EN-049-001- 10 11You are running an evaluation copy of CardWare. This version expires in 14 days. 12 13 14Please refer to the file README.TXT in CardWare installation directory for 15information how to license CardWare. 16 17Please wait 1 seconds 18Detect APM BIOS Version 1.01 installed and enabled. 19Detect POWER.EXE Version 1.00 installed and enabled. 20Detect DPMS Server Version 1.00 (Novell Version 1.44) installed 21Socket Services not loaded 22Card Services installed successfully. 23 24Loading to extended memory via DPMS interface 25 26Socket Services Level 7.00 - Version 7.00 - Release 27-Sep-2007 27(C) Copyright 1992-2007 by APSoft. 28All rights reserved. Disassembly or decompilation prohibited. 29 30Detect DPMS Server Version 1.00 (Novell Version 1.44) installed 31Detect Card Services Level 5.02 (Executed in Protected mode) 32SS docking support is disabled! 33 34ERROR: No PC Card adapter detected! 35 Socket Services installation aborted 36PCENABLE/386 Version 7.00 - Release 27-Sep-2007 37(C) Copyright 1992-2007 by APSoft. 38All rights reserved. Disassembly or decompilation prohibited. 39 40Detect Card Services Level 5.02 (Executed in Protected mode) 41 42WARNING: Socket Services not loaded 43Detect DPMS Server Version 1.00 (Novell Version 1.44) installed 44PCENABLE installed successfully. 45 46Loading to extended memory via DPMS interface 47 48PCATA/386 Version 7.00 - Release 27-Sep-2007 49(C) Copyright 1992-2007 by APSoft. 50All rights reserved. Disassembly or decompilation prohibited. 51 52Detect Card Services Level 5.02 (Executed in Protected mode) 53WARNING: Socket Services not loaded 54Detect DPMS Server Version 1.00 (Novell Version 1.44) installed 55PCATA installed successfully. 56 57Loading to extended memory via DPMS interface 58PCSRAM/386 Version 7.00 - Release 27-Sep-2007 59(C) Copyright 1992-2007 by APSoft. 60All rights reserved. Disassembly or decompilation prohibited.
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61 62Detect Card Services Level 5.02 (Executed in Protected mode) 63WARNING: Socket Services not loaded 64Detect DPMS Server Version 1.00 (Novell Version 1.44) installed 65PCSRAM installed successfully. 66 67Loading to extended memory via DPMS interface 68PCFLASH/386 Version 7.00 - Release 27-Sep-2007 69(C) Copyright 1992-2007 by APSoft. 70All rights reserved. Disassembly or decompilation prohibited. 71 72Detect Card Services Level 5.02 (Executed in Protected mode) 73 74WARNING: Socket Services not loaded 75Detect DPMS Server Version 1.00 (Novell Version 1.44) installed 76PCFLASH installed successfully. 77 78Loading to extended memory via DPMS interface 79PCDISK/386 Version 7.00 - Release 27-Sep-2007 80(C) Copyright 1992-2007 by APSoft. 81All rights reserved. Disassembly or decompilation prohibited. 82 83Detect Card Services Level 5.02 (Executed in Protected mode) 84 85ERROR: Socket Services not loaded 86 PCDISK Installation aborted
Perhaps I need to choose different settings?
Huh. On a whim I tried running dfe670pd.com and it actually appears to have loaded. This despite all the errors above. Did Cardware 7 actually do something helpful?
1C:\NIC\DFE-670\PKTDRV\dfe670pd.com 2Packet Driver for D-Link DFE-670TXD Fast Ethernet PC Card, v1.00 3Ethernet PC Card Card Enabler installation has completed. 4Packet interrupt number 0x62 (98) 5I/O address 0x300 (768) 6Interrupt number 0xB (11) 7Memory address 0xD000 (53248) 8PCMCIA slot 0x0 (0) 9NWay processing ... Auto-Negotiation completely. 10Line Speed: 10 Mbps. 11Duplex mode: Half Duplex. 12NWay enable. 13 14C:\NIC\DFE-670\DIAG\dfcd.exe 15D-Link DFE-670TXD Fast Ethernet PC Card Client Driver v1.00 16Ethernet PC Card Card Enabler installation has completed. 17I/O Base = 0x0300, IRQ = 11, Slot = 0 18 19C:\NIC\DFE-670\DIAG\dfcd.exe /chk 20D-Link DFE-670TXD Fast Ethernet PC Card Client Driver v1.00 21 22[PC Card Environment] 23Card Services : Installed 24Socket Services : Protected by CS 25Adapter 0 : Unknown 26 27[Socket Services Information] 28CS Version : v5.02 29 30[CS Implemented By] 31(C) Copyright 1992-2007 by APSoft 32All rights reserved. Disassembly or decompilation prohibited. 33Former Award and TouchStone product 34 35Vendor's Version : v7.00 36 37# of Sockets Managed by CS : 0
I'll have to test this some more. Could be just a fluke.
Well... even though the driver loads without complaint, I can't get out onto the network.
1C:\WIN311\ping 127.0.0.1 2Pinging [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data: 3Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=500ms TTL=32 4Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=32 5Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=32 6Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=32 7 8C:\WIN311\ping 192.168.0.1 9Pinging [192.168.0.1] with 32 bytes of data: 10Request timed out. 11Request timed out. 12Request timed out. 13Request timed out.
I even installed dos 6.22 and windows 3.11 in a virtual machine simply to make sure I was doing things properly. It worked there, but not in the Omnibook. 🙁
So the adapter defaults to 0x0300 and IRQ = 11. Is there perhaps a conflict? I am uncertain.
1 Microsoft Diagnostics version 2.11 3/10/16 1:14pm Page 1 2 ======================================================================== 3 4 ------------------------ Summary Information -------------------------- 5 6 Computer: Phoenix/Phoenix, 486SX 7 Memory: 622K, 7168K Ext, 4783K XMS 8 Video: XGA, Unknown 9 Network: 10 OS Version: MS-DOS 5.00 11 Mouse: Bus Mouse 12 Other Adapters: Game Adapter 13 Disk Drives: A: B: C: D: 14 LPT Ports: 2 15 COM Ports: 3 16 Windows Information: 3.11, Not Active 17 18 ------------------------------ Computer ------------------------------- 19 20 Computer Name: Phoenix 21 BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix 22 BIOS Version: 23 BIOS Category: IBM PC/AT 24 BIOS ID Bytes: FC 01 00 25 BIOS Date: 07/31/93 26 Processor: 486SX 27 Math Coprocessor: None 28 Keyboard: Enhanced 29 Bus Type: ISA/AT/Classic Bus 30 DMA Controller: Yes 31 Cascaded IRQ2: Yes 32 BIOS Data Segment: 9B80 18k 33 34 35 Microsoft Diagnostics version 2.11 3/10/16 1:14pm Page 2 36 ======================================================================== 37 38 ------------------------------- Memory -------------------------------- 39 40 Legend: Available " " RAM "##" ROM "RR" Possibly Available ".." 41 EMS Page Frame "PP" Used UMBs "UU" Free UMBs "FF" 42 1024K FC00 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR FFFF Conventional Memory 43 F800 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR FBFF Total: 622K 44 F400 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR F7FF Available: 460K 45 960K F000 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR F3FF 471360 bytes 46 EC00 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR EFFF 47 E800 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR EBFF Extended Memory 48 E400 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR E7FF Total: 7168K 49 896K E000 RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR E3FF 50 DC00 ........FFFFFFFF DFFF MS-DOS Upper Memory Blocks 51 D800 ........FFFFFFFF DBFF Total UMBs: 114K 52 D400 ........FFFFFFFF D7FF Total Free UMBs: 70K 53 832K D000 ................ D3FF Largest Free Block: 25K 54 CC00 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF CFFF 55 C800 UUUUUUFFFFFFFFFF CBFF XMS Information 56 C400 UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU C7FF XMS Version: 3.00 57 768K C000 UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU C3FF Driver Version: 3.10 58 BC00 ################ BFFF A20 Address Line: Enabled 59 B800 ################ BBFF High Memory Area: In use 60 B400 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF B7FF Available: 4783K
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61 704K B000 #####UUUUUUFFFFF B3FF Largest Free Block: 4783K 62 AC00 ################ AFFF Available SXMS: 4783K 63 A800 ################ ABFF Largest Free SXMS: 4783K 64 A400 ################ A7FF 65 640K A000 ################ A3FF 66 67 ------------------------------- Video --------------------------------- 68 69 Video Adapter Type: XGA 70 Manufacturer: Unknown 71 Model: 72 Display Type: VGA Color 73 Video Mode: 3 74 Number of Columns: 80 75 Number of Rows: 25 76 Video BIOS Version: Version 1.4.0 77 Version 1.4.0 78 Video BIOS Date: 79 VESA Support Installed: No 80 Secondary Adapter: VGA 81 82 83 Microsoft Diagnostics version 2.11 3/10/16 1:14pm Page 3 84 ======================================================================== 85 86 ----------------------------- OS Version ------------------------------ 87 88 Operating System: MS-DOS 5.00 89 Internal Revision: 00 90 OEM Serial Number: FFH 91 User Serial Number: 000000H 92 OEM Version String: Hewlett-Packard MS-DOS 5.00 - E.0 93 0.00 94 DOS Located in: ROMHMA 95 Boot Drive: C: 96 Path to Program: C:\NIC\MSD.EXE 97 98 Environment Strings 99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 100 COMSPEC=D:\COMMAND.COM 101 PATH=C:\WIN311;C:\;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINWORD;C:\EXCEL;C:\DOS;C:\MOUSE;C:\MSM 102 IL;D:\TSI;D:\ 103 PROMPT=$p$g 104 TEMP=c:\windows\temp 105 TMP=c:\windows\temp 106 MOUSE=c:\mouse 107 108 ------------------------------- Mouse --------------------------------- 109 110 Mouse Hardware: Bus Mouse 111 Driver Manufacturer: No Mouse Driver 112 113 --------------------------- Other Adapters ---------------------------- 114 115 Game Adapter: Detected 116 Joystick A - X: 0 117 Y: 0 118 Button 1: On 119 Button 2: On 120 Joystick B - X: 2 121 Y: 1 122 Button 1: Off 123 Button 2: On 124 125 126 Microsoft Diagnostics version 2.11 3/10/16 1:14pm Page 4 127 ======================================================================== 128 129 ---------------------------- Disk Drives ------------------------------ 130 131 Drive Type Free Space Total Size 132 ----- ------------------------------------ ---------- ---------- 133 A: Floppy Drive, 5.25" 360K 134 265 Cylinders, 64 Heads 135 B: Floppy Drive, 5.25" 1.2M 136 265 Cylinders, 64 Heads 137 C: Fixed Disk, CMOS Type 255 440M 487M 138 992 Cylinders, 16 Heads 139 512 Bytes/Sector, 63 Sectors/Track 140 D: Remote Drive 8162K 8192K 141 512 Bytes/Sector 142 SHARE Installed 143 LASTDRIVE=Z: 144 145 ----------------------------- LPT Ports ------------------------------- 146 147 Port On Paper I/O Time 148 Port Address Line Out Error Out Busy ACK 149 ----- ------- ---- ----- ----- ---- ---- --- 150 LPT1: 0378H Yes Yes No No Yes No 151 LPT2: 0278H No Yes No No No No 152 LPT3: - - - - - - - 153 154 ----------------------------- COM Ports ------------------------------- 155 156 COM1: COM2: COM3: COM4: 157 ----- ----- ----- ----- 158 Port Address 03F8H N/A 03E8H N/A 159 Baud Rate 2400 2400 160 Parity None None 161 Data Bits 8 8 162 Stop Bits 1 1 163 Carrier Detect (CD) No No 164 Ring Indicator (RI) No No 165 Data Set Ready (DSR) No Yes 166 Clear To Send (CTS) No Yes 167 UART Chip Used 16550AF 16550AF 168 169 170 Microsoft Diagnostics version 2.11 3/10/16 1:14pm Page 5 171 ======================================================================== 172 173 ------------------------ Windows Information -------------------------- 174 175 Windows version: 3.11 176 Windows mode: Not Active 177 Windows Directory: C:\WIN311 178 System Directory: C:\WIN311\SYSTEM 179 180 Filename Size Date Time 181 ---------------------------- --------------- -------- ----- 182 VNETSUP.386 14647 4/25/09 21:14 183 VREDIR.386 85746 4/25/09 21:14 184 VSERVER.386 101054 4/25/09 21:14 185 VTDAPI.386 5245 4/25/09 21:14 186 VPMTD.386 5653 4/25/09 21:14 187 VCOMM.386 5688 4/25/09 21:14 188 SERIAL.386 11112 4/25/09 21:14 189 LPT.386 5917 4/25/09 21:14 190 IFSMGR.386 65625 4/25/09 21:14 191 VCACHE.386 9862 4/25/09 21:14 192 VSHARE.386 14925 4/25/09 21:14 193 RMM.D32 11894 4/25/09 21:14 194 195 ----------------------------- IRQ Status ------------------------------ 196 197 IRQ Address Description Detected Handled By 198 --- --------- ---------------- ------------------ ---------------- 199 0 C105:1875 Timer Click Yes Block Device 200 1 C80D:069C Keyboard Yes KEYB 201 2 F000:DB71 Second 8259A Yes BIOS 202 3 F000:DB71 COM2: COM4: No BIOS 203 4 F000:DB71 COM1: COM3: COM1: COM3: BIOS 204 5 F000:DB71 LPT2: Yes BIOS 205 6 217D:00B7 Floppy Disk Yes Default Handlers 206 7 0070:078F LPT1: Yes System Area 207 8 217D:0052 Real-Time Clock Yes Default Handlers 208 9 F000:D92C Redirected IRQ2 Yes BIOS 209 10 F000:DB71 (Reserved) BIOS 210 11 F000:DB71 (Reserved) BIOS 211 12 F000:DB71 (Reserved) BIOS 212 13 F000:D91D Math Coprocessor No BIOS 213 14 217D:0117 Fixed Disk Yes Default Handlers 214 15 F000:DB71 (Reserved) BIOS 215 216 217 Microsoft Diagnostics version 2.11 3/10/16 1:14pm Page 6 218 ======================================================================== 219 220 ---------------------------- TSR Programs ----------------------------- 221 222 Program Name Address Size Command Line Parameters 223 ------------------ ------- ------ -------------------------------- 224 ??? 030F 115760 225 System Data 1F53 12640 226 HIMEM 1F55 1104 XMSXXXX0 227 EMM386 1F9B 3088 EMMQXXX0 228 File Handles 205D 1488 229 FCBS 20BB 256 230 BUFFERS 20CC 512 231 Directories 20ED 2288 232 Default Handlers 217D 3792 233 System Code 226A 64 234 Free Memory 226F 48 235 OBMGM.COM 2273 32 OBM 236 OBMGM.COM 2276 20656 OBM 237 COMMAND.COM 2782 2368 /b /i 238 Free Memory 2817 64 239 COMMAND.COM 281C 1024 /b /i 240 NET 285D 208 /b /i 241 MSD.EXE 286B 335040 /b /i 242 MSD.EXE 7A38 10032 /b /i 243 MSD.EXE 7CAC 24576 /b /i 244 Free Memory 82AD 101648 245 Excluded UMB Area 9B7F 89280 246 Free Memory B14C 208 247 SHARE.EXE B15A 6192 248 Free Memory B2DE 20976 249 Excluded UMB Area B7FE 32800 250 System Data C001 3872 251 IFSHLP C003 3856 IFS$HLP$ 252 SMARTDRV C0F4 29040 253 KEYB C80C 6208 ei,850,d:\keyboard.sys 254 Free Memory C991 26304 255 Excluded UMB Area CFFE 24608 256 Free Memory D601 8128 257 Excluded UMB Area D7FE 8224 258 Free Memory DA01 8128 259 Excluded UMB Area DBFE 8224 260 Free Memory DE01 8160 261 262 263 Microsoft Diagnostics version 2.11 3/10/16 1:14pm Page 7 264 ======================================================================== 265 266 --------------------------- Device Drivers ---------------------------- 267 268 Device Filename Units Header Attributes 269 ------------ -------- ----- --------- ---------------- 270 NUL 01D0:0048 1............1.. 271 Block Device 1 C105:21B2 .1..1....1....1. 272 Block Device 4 C105:21C4 .11.1...11....1. 273 IFS$HLP$ IFSHLP C003:0000 11.1............ 274 $MMXXXX0 1F9B:003A 11.............. 275 EMMQXXX0 EMM386 1F9B:0000 11.............. 276 XMSXXXX0 HIMEM 1F55:0000 1.1............. 277 Block Device DBLSPACE 1 1789:0000 .1..1....1....1. 278 FFS20$ MS-FLASH 0632:0000 1............... 279 MRCI100$ MRCI 0311:0000 1............... 280 CON 0070:0029 1..........1..11 281 AUX 0070:003B 1............... 282 PRN 0070:004D 1.1.....11...... 283 CLOCK$ 0070:005F 1...........1... 284 Block Device 4 0070:0071 .11.1...11....1. 285 COM1 0070:0081 1............... 286 LPT1 0070:0093 1.1.....11...... 287 LPT2 0070:00B8 1.1.....11...... 288 LPT3 0070:00CA 1.1.....11...... 289 COM2 0070:00DC 1............... 290 COM3 0070:00EE 1............... 291 COM4 0070:0100 1............... 292 POWER$ 0070:0112 1............... 293 294 ---------------- ROM BIOS F000 65536 ------------------ 295 296 F000:E020 Copyright (c) 1985,1986,1987 Phoenix Technologies Ltd 297 F000:6680 EMMXXXX0MICROSOFT EXPANDED MEMORY MANAGER 386COMPAQ EXPANDED M 298 EMORY MANAGER 386` 299 F000:2F46 MS-BIOS 300 F000:7FD0 OBCBIOS 301 F000:7FF0 BIOS0 302 F000:E158 All Rights Reserved 303 304 ---------------- Option ROM E800 50176 ------------------ 305 306 E800:02BC MS DOS Version 5.00 (C)Copyright 1981-1991 Microsoft Corp Lice 307 nsed Material - Property of Microsoft All rights reserved < 308 E800:AF46 MS-BIOS 309 310 ---------------- Option ROM E000 32768 ------------------ 311 312 E000:008B Chips 65510 VGA BIOS. 313 Version 1.4.0 314 DECOMPILATION OR DISASSEMBLY PROHIBITED 315 E000:012B Copyright (C) 1992 Chips and Technologies, Inc. All Rights Re 316 served. 317 E000:0004 ?7400000000000000000000000IBM VGA Compatible BIOS. 5
I don't know why MSD got the date and time wrong. I checked the settings and they are correct. I also sent off an e-mail to "support@tscc.de", perhaps they can offer some insight.
1rem 2rem CONFIG.SYS -- OmniBook default startup file for drive C (also 3rem uses drive D). 4rem 5rem This version enables all OmniBook capabilities. It requires 6rem Flash File System for drive D, and is compatible with DoubleSpace 7rem for drive C. 8 9rem SHELL must refer to COMMAND.COM on drive D... 10 11shell=d:\command.com /p /e:1024 d:\ 12 13rem Install HIMEM.SYS, the extended memory manager... 14 15device=C:\WIN311\HIMEM.SYS /machine:2 /testmem:off 16device = c:\win311\emm386.exe noems i=b000-b7ff X=D000-DFFF 17dos=high,umb 18 19rem OBMGM must be installed for the system to boot... 20 21install=d:\omnibook\obmgm.com 22rem install c:\nic\ob600\omnibook\obmgm.com 23 24rem Install country settings for United Kingdom. NOTE: This version 25rem of the OmniBook has hardware code page 850 instead of 437. 26 27country=044,850,d:\country.sys 28 29rem Install the DISPLAY.SYS driver if you wish to change code pages. 30 31rem device=d:\display.sys con=(ega,850,1) 32 33rem Install OBCIC, the OmniBook PCMCIA modem card recognizer TSR, with 34rem generic modem recognition turned on. 35rem Make sure OBCIC is installed after OBMGM... 36 37rem install=d:\omnibook\obcic.exe /GEN 1 38 39rem To install the Pacific Rim Systems parallel line floppy disk driver 40rem (3.5-inch 1.44-MB drive), remove the "rem" from the next device= line... 41 42rem device=d:\omnibook\prspf.sys 43 44rem Set other system variables. 45rem If SMARTDrive is installed, BUFFERS can be set to 10... 46 47files=30 48buffers=30 49 50rem OmniBook needs at least 12 stacks available... 51 52stacks=12,256 53 54rem LASTDRIVE=Y leaves one drive letter available for Novell networks... 55 56lastdrive=Z 57DEVICEHIGH=C:\WIN311\IFSHLP.SYS 58 59rem device=c:\vogons\card\cardsoft\obss.exe 60rem device=c:\vogons\card\cardsoft\cs.exe
1@echo off 2rem 3rem AUTOEXEC.BAT -- OmniBook default startup file for drive C 4rem (also uses drive D). 5rem 6 7LH C:\WIN311\net start 8rem LH C:\WIN311\SMARTDRV.EXE 9 10rem Install alternate code page. The English (International) OmniBook 11rem has code page 850 as the hardware code page. NOTE: You must add 12rem device=display.sys line to config.sys. 13 14rem d:\mode con cp prep=((437)d:\ega.cpi) 15rem d:\mode con cp select=437 16 17rem Install keyboard driver for English (International) 18 19rem LH d:\keyb ei,850,d:\keyboard.sys 20 21rem To install SMARTDrive for a hard disk, remove the "rem" from the 22rem smartdrv command line. The command line specifies no read or write 23rem caching for drive A or B, and only read caching for drive C. 24 25rem d:\windows\smartdrv.exe a- b- e 26 27rem The PATH must include D:\ at the end to allow access to MS-DOS 28rem programs and Windows programs and help files. 29 30path=C:\WIN311;c:\;c:\windows;c:\winword;c:\excel;c:\dos;c:\mouse;c:\msmail;d:\tsi;d:\ 31 32rem Set other environment variables. 33 34prompt $p$g 35set temp=c:\windows\temp 36set tmp=c:\windows\temp 37set mouse=c:\mouse 38 39rem Check for a drive C that is not initialized to run Windows. 40 41rem d:\obsetup 42 43rem Install SHARE (required by Microsoft Mail). 44 45LH d:\share 46 47rem To install the MS-DOS mouse driver, remove the "rem" from the 48rem obmouse command line. 49 50d:\obmouse 51 52rem Change to drive C in case OmniBook booted from drive D. 53 54c: 55 56rem Run Windows using the WIN.BAT batch file. 57 58rem call d:\win 59 60REM Inserted by CARDWARE Setup *** Start
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61PATH C:\CARDWARE;%PATH% 62REM Inserted by CARDWARE Setup *** End
I attempted to check if the NIC works on another computer but found out that my 2008 ASUS has an incompatible ExpressCard slot. So I went down to the basement and started digging. Aside from a remarkable number of ISA cards and old SIMM memory, I found my old P2 laptop with the busted screen that I used as a server for a while. Unfortunately when connected to power the external VGA output does not display any video nor can I hear any POST beep. 🙁
You can remove the following lines from your config.sys:
DEVICEHIGH = C:\CARDWARE\PCATA.EXE
DEVICEHIGH = C:\CARDWARE\PCSRAM.EXE
DEVICEHIGH = C:\CARDWARE\PCFLASH.EXE
DEVICEHIGH = C:\CARDWARE\PCDISK.EXE
Try the other Socket drivers from cardware, sstact.exe and sstcit.exe instead of sspcic.exe.
1SystemSoft Socket Services 2.1 VL82C146 Version 1.01 (2173-06) 2Copyright 1993-1994 SystemSoft Corporation. All rights Reserved 3 4VL82C146 PCMCIA adapter not found 5SystemSoft VL82C146 Socket Services not installed
ssvlsi no. 2 outputted:
1SystemSoft Socket Services 2.1 VL82C146 Version 1.01 (2243-08) 2Copyright 1993-1994 SystemSoft Corporation. All rights Reserved 3 4VL82C146 PCMCIA adapter not found 5SystemSoft VL82C146 Socket Services not installed
There was only a slight difference in the numbers after the version number. I also tried every ss* in both folders. sscirrus and ssvadem run without complaint, but regrettably do not appear to work. Non-standard hardware really is a pain. Thank you for trying though.