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Realtek 8139 based 10/100 PCMCIA with eCS 1.1
Posted by Jan Eri on July 10th, 2003


This description assumes that a Realtek 8139 based Fast Ethernet card
is placed in PCMCIA socket 0 (top) and a Compact Flash adapter in
PCMCIA socket 1 (bottom) on an IBM ThinkPad. This is tested on an IBM
TP 600E.

1) Install complete PCMCIA support for IBM TP (choose correct model!)
during install of eCS 1.1

2) Install support for Realtek 8139 ethernet 3.23vk (27.01.2003)
during install of eCS 1.1

3) Edit config.sys after eCS install:

Change PCMCIA.SYS line so that release 5.0 is reported (default is
2.0):

BASEDEV=PCMCIA.SYS /R:500

This seems to disable PCM2ATA.ADD so that the Compact Flash reader
don't work anymore, but this driver can be replaced by similar
functionality in DANIS506. REM the line with PCM2ATA.ADD:

rem BASEDEV=PCM2ATA.ADD /S:2 /B /!DM /NOBEEP

And add the /PCS parameter to DANIS506.ADD:

BASEDEV=DANIS506.ADD /PCS

4) Install cbenable-package (Hobbes)

Run ppcmcia.exe. It patches PCMCIA.SYS in \os2\ and \os2\boot\

Copy CBENABLE.SYS and OEMHLP2.SYS to \os2\boot and add them as
BASEDEV's to config.sys (CBENABLE.SYS MUST be after PCMCIA.SYS,
OEMHLP2.SYS CAN be before).

BASEDEV=OEMHLP2.SYS (OEMHLP2.SYS has no parameters)
BASEDEV=CBENABLE.SYS * * 0 0 10 $1800 $0100 /FunctionID:6
/Patch_Ti1225_Burst:1

This assigns IRQ=10 og IO=1800 to the Realtek card.

Following this description, I am able to both read Compact Flash cards
in the PCMCIA adapter, and to use the Realtek 8139 based Billionton
10/100 PCMCIA ethernet card with good performance. This is all
described in the docs that comes with the cbenable and rtsnd323
packages on Hobbes. The reason I put it together was just to share the
solution with the combination of cbenable and pcm2ata in case that
helps anyone else.

regards,
Jan

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