PCMCIA Network Card Drivers

I hope that this hasn't been posted already. I want to be able to use my Solaris 8 (intel) with my laptop computer. But I am having a devil of a time finding the drivers to make the Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100 (RE-100) NIC. The closest that I have found was the PCMCIA driver softwate from Lynnsoft for $100.00. I would sooner continue using Linux.Could someone please point me in the right direction. I have read the Hardware Compatability List, but to be homest, I just ended up confused. The PCMCIA entries that I found there and in the patch database did not give me the warm fuzzy that I was looking for before wiping out my HD to install Solaris 8 on and get on the Net. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for the help and your patience.
Brgds,
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Welcome to the Lenovo Community!
The factory update page only shows the diskette method (other systems also have an option to use the hard drive; typically this is called "non-diskette"). This thread:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11244
appears to say that you can take a BIOS update floppy (created on a system which obviously has a floppy drive) and then use Nero to create a bootable copy on a CD. I have not personally tried this but it seems like it should work. Unless the BIOS updater checks to see if the media it's running off of is writable .
Also note that the BIOS update requires a working battery. However, there is a hack for that:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=782638
For about $10 you can get a 05K8874 floppy drive off of eBay and then you won't have to do this at all. In fact, if you get the external housing along with the floppy, you can basically have a three-spindle system; hard drive, Ultraslimbay CD drive and the external floppy. The floppy drive can be removed from the housing and installed in the Ultraslimbay if needed.
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