USB2 PCMCIA and 10/100 Network PCMCIA card

[wu]

Dear Experts:

I have NEC Laptop and I use 3com 10/100M ethernet PC card to connect to
network. Now I bought one USB2 PCMCIA card. When I inserted it, the windows
froze in a few seconds. The system performed well if only one card in the
slot(either ethernet card or USB2 CARD). If I put both card in the slots,
then I boot up the laptop, the windows is still working but the local area
network shows disabled or network cable removed. I am not able to enable the
connection. It seems some conflicts between two cards. They shared IRQ11,
and device manager says "no conflict" and "The card is working well". I
cannot change the IRQ because it is greyed.

COuld you please give advice. Thanks

Wu

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Check the notebook specs, it may only allow one PCMCIA card at once.

 

[wu]

Thanks Cari, but I have used two PCMCIA at one time successfully in the
past(Ethernet card and another communication card), so i am wondering what
is wrong now.

Wu