Re: [Thinkpad] 765L memory, PCMCIA, other magic.

Re CardBus: Yes it is possible and it works fine for me with a fast
ethernet card. I have done this recently on my 765D with Redhat 9. You
have to uninstall the kernel drivers and compile and install the card
services at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/>. Depending on
how knowledgable you are, this can be quite challenging. It took me a
while and I had to ask for help in their forum. Contact me either on- or
off-list if you need help.

Re HDD cartridge: These can be disassembled and reassembled a limited
number of times. Any pin-compatible HDD will work as long as the BIOS
limit of the machine is respected, which I don't know offhand for the 765L.

Alban

> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:27:15 -0600
> From: thinkpad@seebs.plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
> Subject: [Thinkpad] 765L memory, PCMCIA, other magic.
> To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> Message-ID: <200402130427.i1D4RFqd001639@guild.plethora.net>
>
> I have a ThinkPad 765L. The people who lent it to me to work on something
> appear to be out of business, and owed me about $1k, so I guess I'm keeping
> the notebook.
>
> It has 16MB on-board, and a single 16MB EDO DIMM. Unfortunately for me, the
> only SO-DIMM memory I have lying around is SDRAM from a Gateway Solo 2300.
>
> Anyone out there got 32 or 64MB EDO DIMMs of the sort this machine takes,
> especially if you're interested in trading for a 32 and/or a 64 MB SDRAM DIMM?
> These are the same form factor, they just don't work in the 765.
>
> On a secondary note, has anyone ever gotten the cardbus slot on this working
> under any kind of Unix? It looks like the BIOS never sets it up correctly
> with an IRQ. If I use the PS2 utility under DOS to enable the cardbus stuff,
> I can get PCMCIA drivers working in compatibility mode, but I can't use
> cardbus cards like that; I'd ideally prefer to have it working in cardbus mode
> so I could have USB on it occasionally.
>
> Any help or advice appreciated.
>
> BTW, I'm trying an experiment involving taking apart the 3GB drive cartridge
> it has, and putting in a 12GB drive. If it works, this will become a pretty
> viable small workstation machine.
>
> -s
>
>
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