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PCMCIA WaveRunner ISDN/Analog Modem - Difficulties occurring in laptop systems

Applicable to: World-Wide

Symptom:
Difficulties occurring using a IBM WaveRunner ISDN PCMCIA card in a laptop computer.

Some problem indicators are:
- no problems using other PCMCIA cards (which indicates that the Computer and Socket Services are configured OK.)
- the installation of the WaveRunner software goes OK.
- after rebooting, the machine freezes during the running of the initialization batch file mwpcms.bat
- when the WaveRunner card is ejected the laptop runs normally.

Explanation:
The problem exists because of a conflict between the Cirrus Logic PCMCIA controller chip default settings and the CardSoft driver default settings. The chip gets confused when a certain range of addresses are used. The conflicting range of addresses may be assigned to the WaveRunner which in effect causes data to be put into the I/O address instead of memory.

Resolution:
The problem is corrected by restricting the address in the SystemSoft card and socket services software and by making the following changes:

1. Edit the CSALLOC.INI file and ensure the following:

MEM=D800-DFFF
MEMEXCLUDE=D000-D7FF

2. Edit the config.sys and ensure that EMM386.EXE has an exclusion for D800-DFFF

3. The system.ini should have EMMExclude=D800-DFFF in the Ç386ENHÇ section

Keywords: OBI pcmcia isdn waverunner modem

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Modems, PCMCIA (PC Card)

Date Created

07-01-98

Last Updated

25-02-99

Revision Date

25-02-2000

Brand

IBM Options

Product Family

Modems

Machine Type

128K

Model

04H7686

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