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How to Use the HomeLink 10/100 Notebook Network Card's
Generic Services Under DOS-Based Systems
The software disk provided with the HomeLink Phoneline + 10/100 Network
PC Card includes generic socket and card services that can be used to enable
the card. The card's hardware-specific client enabler will only enable the
HomeLink Phoneline + 10/100 Network PC Card. If you want to use other
PCMCIA cards in the future, you will need to obtain additional services for
those card(s) before you'll be able to use them. The enabler will work only with
standard PCMCIA slots. It may not function properly with CardBus slots.
When enabler loads itself into memory, it tries to choose IRQ and I/O base
address values for the HomeLink PC Card not already in use.
The enabler also checks to see if any other service packages are loaded. If there
are any services already present in memory, enabler will attempt to load itself
without disturbing them.
Open up your config.sys file in a text editor. Scroll through the file. Find the
line that reads:
DEVICE=C:\EMM386.EXE
It will probably be located near the beginning of the file. You will need to add a
command to the end of the EMM386 command in order to reserve an area of
memory for the HomeLink PC Card's client enabler to use. Add the following
command to the end of the EMM386 line:
NOEMS X=D000-DFFF
so that the new EMM386 line now looks something like this (it may vary
slightly):
DEVICE=C:\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-DFFF
If there are already commands on the EMM386 line, try not to disturb them
when you add the NOEMS X=D000-DFFF
Note: Plug-and-Play operating systems such as Windows 95 and 98 do not
require the use of the enabler or memory exclusion.
Windows NT has limited support for PCMCIA cards and will not require the
enabler.
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