Pc Card Enablers; Disabling Preloaded Pcmcia Drivers - NEC VERSA 2600 User Manual

PC Card Enablers

Some PC cards have custom software written by the card
manufacturer, known as Enablers, instead of Card and
Socket Services. This custom software works well if only
one or two PC cards are used on a particular system.
Although many of these were considered compliant with
PCMCIA Release 2.0 specifications, they did not provide a
truly compatible environment for exchanging and sharing
PCMCIA operations. The following are some guidelines for
using PC cards with Enablers.
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Do not use more than one Enabler at once unless you
know what system resources are used by each Enabler.
One Enabler may crash another if there is a conflict.
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Hot swap may not work with some Enablers.
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An Enabler may only work in Windows Standard Mode.
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Enablers have minimal memory requirements. For ex-
ample, they require as little as 4 KB for a modem,
16 KB for Ethernet, and 24 KB for Token Ring.
Know your system resources (see the CONFIG.SYS file);
command line arguments cannot use resources being used
by other devices.

Disabling Preloaded PCMCIA Drivers

You can disable all of the PCMCIA drivers that come pre-
loaded in your NEC notebook computer. However, doing so
limits some of the flexibility of PCMCIA. You can still use
PC cards that have Enabler software, but you can install
and run only one at a time. The card must rely on the soft-
ware supplied by the card vendor (Enablers).
Remove the preloaded PCMCIA drivers by modifying the
CONFIG.SYS file as follows.
1. Select the File menu in Windows Program Manager.
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