MaxTech PCN2000 Series Incorrectly Installed Pcmcia Driver, I/O Base Address and IRQ Conflict

after reading the following information, contact your dealer or vendor for assistance.

Most adapter failure after installation is caused by: A) Incorrectly installed PCMCIA driver, B)Not excluding memory address D400-D7FF when using a memory manager, C)I/O base ad- dress and IRQ Line conflict, or D)Cable problems.

4.1 Incorrectly Installed PCMCIA Driver

The included PCMCIA driver runs as a Card Service Client and should only be loaded after the Socket and Card Services are loaded. Be

certain that the CONFIG.SYS file contains DE- VICE= entries in this order.

4.2Not Excluding Memory Address D400- D7FF

The PCMCIA Ethernet adapter uses the memory region D400-D7FF to read Ethernet ID and other information from on-board flash ROM. This memory region must be excluded from usage by other programs, including memory managers. If you are running Microsoft's memory manager, make sure that the x=D400-D7FFor x=D000-DFFFparameter appears in the Device=EMM386.EXE entry in your CONFIG.SYS. Refer to Section 2.3 for detailed information.

4.3 I/O Base Address and IRQ Conflict

Make sure that the I/O address and IRQ used by the adapter is not already in use by another device in your PC. If your PC has built-in serial ports then you will not be able to use IRQ 4 (COM1) or IRQ 3 (COM2). Other adapters in your

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