Configuring PCMCIA 3Com575 on Toshiba 4000CDT Laptop

I've installed Solaris 7 on my Toshiba laptop which is running
with Windows 95 and Linux Redhat 6.0.
My two PCMCIA cards (network and modem) works well under Linux if
I setup BIOS with "Cardbus 16bits": Solaris 7 can only support if "PCI compatible" is setup.
This option is allowed under my laptop but my network cards is always
hang up after that.
Did anybody make it works with the pcelx driver ?

Hmm, the PC location "138F0E" is not the same (might be specific for S10_b40), but otherwise I get
exactly the same crash when trying to boot from the Software 1 of 2 CD on a Toshiba Tecra S1:
http://groups.google.de/groups?&selm=wyad80p6da.fsf%40tools.de
My workaround is to boot using an USB floppy (with enabled USB legagy floppy emulation). Using the
DCA boot floppy image that can be found on the "Software 2 of 2" CD. Once the system is installed,
the USB floppy is no longer necessary, the system boots from the HDD without problems.
Another possible workaround is to try booting the system via network / PXE. May or may not work. For
the Toshiba Tecra S1, I had to use S10_b44 to get a working inital phase of PXE booting, S10_b40 was
reporting lots of I/O errors. Unfortunatelly S10_b44 now hangs while loading the Solaris kernel over the
network :-(

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