Hi folks !

I've had this nice little 486 laptop with a 486DX2-40MHz and 20MB of RAM since few month, but I was never able to use it because it was missing the HDD caddy and the floppy disk drive is dead. Recently, I stumbled onto a nearly NOS HDD for the LTE 5000 (which uses the same caddy)

Yesterday, I installed MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11 for workgroups, the drivers, and etc.

Since the floppy drive is dead, there is no easy way to put data on this laptop (the way I did was to use another 90's laptop and transfert with floppy disks ... That's not very fun to do), so I thought that maybe I can use a PCMCIA ethernet card.

Like this one perhaps ? (By the way, I know it works, I've been using it for a long time in my pentium laptops)

The computer boots normally, then when some DOS driver for the PCMCIA starts, the computer makes a beep, meaning the card gets detected I think, and the BIOS setup in Windows (yeah compaq made the bios setup of that computer specifically for Windows) confirms it :

So after knowing the card was communicating properly with the computer, I tried to install these drivers http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1348&menustate=0 as well as the 32 bit TCP IP network stack.

But there is a problem ; the computer crashes when starting on this step

This happens when C:\WINDOWS\NET START is executed in autoexec.bat (Also, this gets shown wether the card is actually in the computer or not)