Re: [Thinkpad] 3Com 3C563 Lan & OS2

In <3F603C03.2050002@warmuth.at>, on 09/11/03
   at 11:10 AM, Michael Warmuth <michael@warmuth.at> said:

>Eletourneau@verizon.net wrote:
>> I'm using a 3Com 3C563 PCMCIA Lan/modem card in a Thinkpad 600E with Warp
>> 4.52. When the machine goes into suspension (hibernation), the card does not
>> reconnect to the router (a D-Link 704) -- and I have to reboot the machine to
>> connect again.
>[...]

>If this card is just a point-enabled one, then there is no chance to solve
>this, as you cannot control it via PC Card Director and if you do remove the
>card then the machine will stall.

I don't know what point-enable means. The problem does not occur with Win98
(its the first time I have ever seen windoze do anything better then OS2), so
I think the card is okay -- but I don't don't where to start looking for other
problems.

>If this card is PC Card Director aware, then you can control it via PC Card
>Director and one can safely remove and reinsert the card without a crash.
>The first thing to try is to power off the card before going into suspend or
>hibernation. If this does not work try to remove the card before going into
>power saving modes and re-inserting it after wake up. If this does not help,
>you can look into the various parameters for the PC Card/PCMCIA drivers (see
>the read me), but my experience tells me that these parameters usually don't
>help to solve a problem.

I didn't find anything helpful in the readme. And I can remove and install
the card without the machine being affected in anyway -- the diodes on the
card and the router light up -- They just never start talking to each other.

Thanks for you advice, though.

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Received on Thu Sep 11 08:29:06 2003