TROUBLE.TXT

Trouble Shooting

When installing REALTEK rtl8139B/C(L) CarBus network card, some problems(P)
may be encountered. Here are the solutions(S) according to various OS.


Win95b (Win95 OSR2)
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P: The CardBus card is not detectable.
S: Win95b (Win95 OSR2) can't recognize some new CardBus controller 
   devices by its default pcmcia.inf. Ask the CardBus cantroller vendor
   for new setup file, rename it to pcmcia.inf and copy it to 
   c:\windows\inf. Delete the "Standard pcmcia driver" or "Unknown 
   PCMCIA device" on "Device manager" and restart the computer.


DOS (NWCLIENT, NDIS2DOS)
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P: The CardBus card is not detectable.
S: Check your system file config.sys. Add this line 
         "device=c:\DOS\himem.sys" 
   In order to work well with emm386, remove the argument "NOEMS" as  
         "device=c:\dos\emm386"
     or edit it as 
         "device=c:\dos\emm386 x=d000-d3ff"
     or remark it as
         "rem device=c:\dos\emm386".
   Save config.sys and restart the computer.


P: The CardBus card is detected. Drivers and protocals are loaded, but
   it hangs when using VLM or NETX to log on the net.
S: Restart the computer. Change the argument of rtpci.exe to other IRQ
   value.  Example:  rtpci.exe /md000 /ixx     
   (xx is the value depands on various notebook, it could be 7-14)  


WINNT4
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P: When CardBus card is installed. the computer hangs when it restarts.
S: Removed the CardBus card and enter NT4. Select another I/O port value
   in property dialog box on "Control Panel->Network->Device->Rtl8139", 
   and restart the computer.
 

P: The CardBus card is detected. Drivers and protocals are loaded, but
   it hangs when using VLM or NETX to log on the net.
S: Select another Interrupt value or I/O port valuein property dialog box
   on "Control Panel->Network->Device->Rtl8139", and restart the computer.