RE: 701C w/ Outboard CD-ROM

New Message Reply Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

From: Robert W. King (rwking_at_ipa.net)
Date: Wed Dec 10 1997 - 16:44:31 EST


Hi Paul!

> >Speaking of IRQ's on the ThinkPad 701 --
[snip]
> > Paul, can you (or anybody else reading this) tell me how to use IRQ 11 or
> > 15 for the Xircom network card given this situation? My suspicion is that this
> > is a Xircom driver related problem, but that being said what can I do about it?
> >
> Hmmm, I haven't even touched 95 except for interrupting
> a screen saver in about 3 or so months. I know that in OS/2, you can
> map things like parallel or serial to different ports if supported, but
> I'm not sure about Windows 95, in the case of the Xircom adapter.
>
> For example, I have the Internal modem, COM2 on the multiport,
> and my Home & Away card, and the H&A is on IRQ 11, COM3.
>
> I do wish that the BIOS would allow you to remap the IRQ like that though.
>
> Have you tried also contacting Xircom yet?
>
That does seem to be the only avenue left given the lack of viable suggestions from this group. Wish me luck.

Robert W. King
I'm an ingenieur, NOT a bloody locomotive driver!
SnailNet: 19023 TV Tower Rd, Winslow, Arkansas 72959
BellNet: 501-634-2086, InterNet: rwking_at_ipa.net
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/k/i/n/Robert-W-King/index.html


New Message Reply Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:53:50 EST