enable pcmcia 32bit support on vaio

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I wouldn't presume that it's not enabled, but more likely that you have
a compatability problem between the card or it's drivers, and your system.

If it needs to be enabled (which is possible), that would be in the
laptop BIOS setup, usually.


Edwood wrote:

> I have a vaio pcg-505x and I have bought a cardbus card, when I install
> it windows 98 freeze.
> How can I enable the 32bit support?
> thanks

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:41:54 +0200, Edwood <edwoodTAKEMEOFF@firenze.net> wrote:
> I have a vaio pcg-505x and I have bought a cardbus card, when I install
> it windows 98 freeze.
> How can I enable the 32bit support?
> thanks

Did you read and follow instructions for the cardbus card? I have a Sony
PCG-450, probably from the same era (purchased 1/2000), although, the only
cardbus card I have is a Netgear 10/100 nic (FA510C). It works without
problems in Win98se or Linux. I don't think there is any way to disable
cardbus support. A cardbus card will not fit into a 16-bit only pcmcia
slot.

I did have problems related to a Linksys 16-bit PC card driver. For some
reason its Win98 driver prevented assigning TCP/IP to anything else. So I
had to uninstall the Linksys driver when installing an SMC wireless PC
card, and again when installing Enternet 300 (PPPoE software). I actually
had the wireless nic working in Linux before I figured out the Win98
Linksys driver interference.