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Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:26:24 PST8
From:	ggranat@earthlink.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: config.sys bus support ?

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In <41AC579F.678F@peterskye.com>, on 11/30/2004
at 03:21 AM, Peter Skye said:

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>Hardware-oriented CONFIG.SYS questions (apologies, this is old stuff but
>I've forgotten it and I need the info):

Happens to me all the time...

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>If you have a PCMCIA, SCSI and/or USB bus then those buses are connected to
>the PCI bus and you need a PCMCIA, SCSI and/or USB bus driver to use these
>buses. These are BASEDEV= drivers (for example BASEDEV=SYM8XX.ADD for some
>of the symbios scsi bus chips). Yes? (Can anyone give me a typical
>BASEDEV= for the PCMCIA or USB bus?)

On my ThinkPad 380XD (yeah, it is a bit long in the tooth) there are three
statements in CONFIG.SYS that have to do with the PCMCIA (aka CardBus) bus:

BASEDEV=PCMCIA.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2SS14.SYS
BASEDEV=AUTODRV2.SYS

According to the ConfigTool database PCMCIA.SYS handles card services for
PCMCIA cards and must be the first PCMCIA driver. IBM2SS14.SYS is the socket
services driver for IBM ThinkPads. AUTODRV2.SYS is an autoconfigurator and
supports PCMCIA modems. There are, subsequently, DEVICE= statements for a
bunch of additional drivers, but that exceeds the scope of your question.

>Thanks much,

>- Peter

-- gary
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Gary Granat
ggranat@earthlink.net
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