External DvD-rom for Portege 3500

I recently acquired a Portege 3500 as well as a Toshiba external DVD-ROM (model No. PA3246U-1DVD). As I attempt to find drivers for this I have failed horribly (for the dvd-rom). It is connected via a Card Bus card. Toshiba says the drivers should be part of Windows but my system cannot find them. I was wondering if anyone here had drivers for the Portege 3500 for this. If I'm not mistaken they should be for PCMCIA adapters. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
*Side note: Retailers say the Toshiba external DVD-ROMs ships with cd contain both manual and drivers. If anyone has a copy or could point me to a site with them it would be greatly appreciated as well.

mostly the external DVD-drives are made by freecom
you can find the freecom cardbus driver for your 3500 here :
http://support.toshiba-tro.de/tools/portege/p3500/win-xp-tbe/cardbus-drv/cb-drv-p3500-xp-tbe-5135661-en.zip
if you need additional drivers you can find and download them at the freecom website ( www.freecom.com )

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