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urgent! pcmcia card not recognizing network card

I'm running an old laptop with win95, portege 300ct, it has two pcmcia slots. I put a d-link network card that is suppposed to be compatable for win95 in, but the slot doesn't recognize it. I restarted, searched for new hardware, still the pcmcia slots think they are empty. What can I do at this point to make it work?

here are the sad computer specs
Portege 300ct
133 mz
32 mb ram
1.5 GB HD

quick response appreciated

rid

The card may be win95 compatible, but if it is a CardBus card, the PCMCIA slot must be CardBus compatible, too. On a P 133 generation machine this may not be the case. The only solution (if the assumption is correct) is to get a "normal" PC Card NIC.
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polkadot

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ok what is a normal pc card? what do I look for when I buy it?

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rid

Oh, additional:
Very generally, the connector end of a CardBus card is gold plated, whereas the "normal" PC-card devices don't have such frills.
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polkadot

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thanks to the guys who actually bothered to figure out that my pc does in fact have a cardbus, I have found out from someone with a similar laptop, that there is something in the bios that is supposed to switch it from 16bit to 32bit

polkadot

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ok problem solved ... changed the BIOS setting to cardbus 32-bit and it works