Aggravated

[mtlchick.livejournal.com]

I figure, almost 4 years of tech support for dial-up ISPs, I should be able to install IN MY OWN LAPTOP, pretty much any modem they can throw at me. Not true, I order a Xircom 56k/Network card from Ebay. AND I CAN'T MAKE IT WORK!
I think it might actually be defective....

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[hoffman-log.livejournal.com]

As someone who just mis-read your username as "Mitnick", I suggest another theory: It's late and you're probably tired. :-P Or it IS defective. Damn you eBay!!!

_MaH

[mtlchick.livejournal.com]

If I was Mitnick, it would be even sadder that I can't seem to do this.
Turns out it's not the card, as I was able test it on another machine. Could be the Windows 95 I'm trying to get it tset up on tho...(it's my old laptop from '97).
Maybe I'll wait till I upgrade to 98 next week. Supposedly the card is plug and play on everything except '95, so I'll just be taking the easy way out.

[rhonan.livejournal.com]

Could be worse. I had the same problem with a cardbus NIC, so I return it as defective and pick up a cheap 10BT NIC from a used parts place I know, and had then test it before I bought it. The known good card didn't work in the laptop either. Then I test the parallel port, it's not working either. Scratch head, pull floppy, insert CD-Rom, re-boot. CD-ROM will not read any disk. Oh shit! Use null-modem cable to hook the laptop to one of my PC's, that works, at least something does. A week later I run into a friend who's a field engineer for the company that makes the laptop and tell him about it. He tells me that my io chip is toast. Fsck! He says the clue is that the FD, HD, internal modem, and serial port work, but nothing else. Then the bad news, he reminds me that you can't change the chip, you replace the MB.

[nancymccoydfw.livejournal.com]

My icon says your icon should stay away from eBay, lol.
Don'tcha just hate when you can't even tech yourself?
;-}

(Gotta love Dust Puppy!)

[detritus.livejournal.com]

I have that same card, it's worked under '98, 2000, and various flavors of Redhat no problem.

I think '95 is your problem.

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[mtlchick.livejournal.com]

Turns out the problem is the actual physical slot it was going into. Because it takes up bot PCMCIA slots, the way mine are set up, it won't go in far enough. :(