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One Method of installing a Linksys EC2T PCMCIA card in portable running
Win95 OSR2

[Zube, Mar 10, 1998]

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To install a linksys EC2T PCMCIA card in a machine running win95 OSR2
(that is, win95 4.00.950B):

0) disregard everything on the linksys site

1) With win95 running, insert the card into the PCMCIA slot

2) The device wizard will recognize the new hardware, *BUT* it identifies
itself as:

E-CARD-E-CARD

It will then search for drivers on a:, fail to find them, and ask you to
look in other locations.  Regardless of the location that is chosen, it
appears that the drivers are never found.  Click on finish.

3) Now go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager.
Under Other Devices, there should be an entry that reads

        ! E-CARD-E-CARD

(the ! means it isn't working).  Click on:

E-CARD-E-CARD
  Properties
    Driver
      Update Driver
        No, Select driver from list
          Network Adapters
            Next
              Linksys
                Linksys Combo PCMCIA EtherCard

and install the driver.  Now, don't reboot yet.

4) Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager
again.  Now there should be an entry for Network Adapters, and under that,
an entry for Linksys Combo PCMCIA EtherCard.  Click on that entry and
go to Resources.  Unclick the Use Automatic Settings box and set the
I/O Range and Interrupt Ranges such that they don't conflict with anything
else.  [In my case, the I/O was ok, but I had to set the Interrupt Request
to 11.]

NOTE #1:  When I set the Interrupt Request to 11, it told me that
there was a conflict, even though there wasn't.  After a reboot, all
was well.

NOTE #2:  If you reboot, and it still doesn't work, go back to Device
Manager -> Network Adapters -> Linksys Combo PCMCIA EtherCard -> Resources
and try setting both the I/O Range and the Interrupt Range again.  This time,
the information box at the bottom is helpful and usually correct.  Once
setting them, reboot.

NOTE #3: You will know that all is well when, while booting, you hear the
distinctive PCMCIA beep and the Rx light begins to blink (assuming it
is plugged in to a live 10baseT (twisted pair) port.  You can now add all
the protocol bits confident that the network card is working.