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PCMCIA drivers for win3.x

The NIC is an "Aironet 350" AIR-PCM350 by cisco, but I have drivers for the NIC, what I need are drivers for the PCMCIA controller itself (PC Card services)
 
Phoenix has a pretty good card services package for DOS, which is what I usually use with WFW 3.11. It's floating around on the Internet in various places.
 
Thanks to Raven and Glitch, I think I have what I need: PC-DOS 7. It has PCMCIA support (Phoenix thingie) bundled with it, and is (mostly) MS-DOS compatible. I'll load it up and install WFW3.11 and edit this post here pretty soon.
 
Problem: Win3.x is designed to refuse to run on non-MS DOSes. I am not sure if it will load on PC-DOS 7, since it's post-Win3.x era and thusly even though IBM-branded might not be acceptable to Win3.x. There's a patch to get around that, though, if you run into that problem.

Also, you don't have to reload Win3.x - just install the new DOS and then tinker with the autoexec/config.
 
PC-DOS7 was a fail, for some reason it isn't recognizing the second disk, and just prompts me for it again, and again, and agian. I have written the image to multiply floppies, and downloaded multiple images, and they all had the same problem. What the french fries?
 
I sent you the PCMCIA drivers from PCDOS7 extracted, so just use normal DOS (I recommend dos 7.10, google it) and install them in that.
 
Raven said:
Problem: Win3.x is designed to refuse to run on non-MS DOSes. I am not sure if it will load on PC-DOS 7, since it's post-Win3.x era and thusly even though IBM-branded might not be acceptable to Win3.x. There's a patch to get around that, though, if you run into that problem.
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IBM's PC DOS was never an issue for Windows 3.x. In fact, IBM shipped countless computers from the factory with PC DOS and Windows 3.1 preinstalled. :)

The beta test version of Windows 3.1 was purposely designed by Microsoft to crash with a "non-fatal error" if you attempted to run it on Digital Research's DR-DOS. But due to user backlash and a lawsuit by DR, Microsoft disabled this error in the commercial release version of Windows 3.1, allowing it to run successfully on DR-DOS. Unfortunately, by that time Microsoft had already succeeded in spreading the word that "Windows is incompatible with non-Microsoft versions of DOS", causing sales of DR-DOS to plummet.

I have personally run Windows 3.1 and 3.11 on top of IBM's PC DOS 6.3, 7.0, and 2000, and DR-DOS 7.0, and never had any problems with it.
 
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