BlackhawksFan
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I am trying to get one of these two ethernet cards to work correctly on my Fujitsu Lifebook E330 in Windows 98 SE.
The first is an Intel Pro 100 Cardbus II type 3 card. (double height, no dongle)
I can hear white noise coming out of my speakers when I am copying files across a network with this card, so I quit using it after the test.
Otherwise this nic works just fine, it will copy about 600megs of data over to the laptop in about 3 minutes. The cpu utilization is 25-30% max.
The second nic is a Linksys PCMCPC 100 10/100 type 2 card. (single height, with dongle)
This card doesn't make the speakers emit white noise like the Intel nic does. BUT The big problem is, it takes about 15 minutes to copy the same amount of data over, and the CPU utilization is a full 100%. This is way too slow for a 100base nic IMO, and it is being a cpu hog. The intel card runs about the same speed as my desktops do with pci 100base nics.
Any ideas? Is my laptop not cardbus compatible or something?
Also, how can I tell if my laptop card services are PCI or ISA? Do I need new drivers for that maybe? I've read somewhere that Windows defaults to ISA mode for that.
The first is an Intel Pro 100 Cardbus II type 3 card. (double height, no dongle)
I can hear white noise coming out of my speakers when I am copying files across a network with this card, so I quit using it after the test.
Otherwise this nic works just fine, it will copy about 600megs of data over to the laptop in about 3 minutes. The cpu utilization is 25-30% max.
The second nic is a Linksys PCMCPC 100 10/100 type 2 card. (single height, with dongle)
This card doesn't make the speakers emit white noise like the Intel nic does. BUT The big problem is, it takes about 15 minutes to copy the same amount of data over, and the CPU utilization is a full 100%. This is way too slow for a 100base nic IMO, and it is being a cpu hog. The intel card runs about the same speed as my desktops do with pci 100base nics.
Any ideas? Is my laptop not cardbus compatible or something?
Also, how can I tell if my laptop card services are PCI or ISA? Do I need new drivers for that maybe? I've read somewhere that Windows defaults to ISA mode for that.
