Re: Waverunner ISDN PCMCIA Card & Win95 (fwd)

[Friedemann Baitinger <baiti@herrenberg.netsurf.de>]

 the ibm development lab in boeblingen, germany has devloped an
 active isdn card which is available as:
 
 - microchannel card
 - pcmcia card
 - isa card
 - and very soon as a pci card
 
 drivers are available for os/2 and aix. at this time, i do not
 know the exact status of the windows 95 drivers. if you need further
 information, please let me know, i can get you in contact with the
 development function.
 
  
 > A passing thought on seeing this thread: Germany seems to
 > be the centre of the world in terms of ISDN kit. It also means
 > that it's worth checking out German companies for ISDN
 > PCMCIA cards. In particular look out for AVM and Dr. Neuhaus
 > brands - these are very well respected there. Last time I looked,
 > ISDN kit from Germany was very good and very competitively
 > priced.
 > 
 > Chances are, manuals in English would be available.
 > 
 > cheers,
 > 
 > Andrew
 > 
 > ----------
 > From: 	Gene J[SMTP:blue@enteract.com]
 > Sent: 	Dienstag, 5. November 1996 19:19
 > To: 	thinkpad@cs.utk.edu
 > Subject: 	Re: Waverunner ISDN PCMCIA Card & Win95
 > 
 > > From:          "C2" <c2@iaco.com>
 > > Date:          Tue, 5 Nov 1996 08:55:13 +0000
 > > Subject:       Waverunner ISDN PCMCIA Card & Win95
 > >
 > > I just purchased a bunch (I'm embarrassed to say how many) of 
 > > Waverunner PCMCIA cards to be used in Thinkpads of various 
 > > configurations. I was assured that this worked under Windows 95. 
 > > Imagine my surprise when after having trouble locating the drivers I 
 > > called IBM and they said there was no Windows 95 support for this 
 > > card. How can IBM sell a PCMCIA product today without a Windows 95 
 > > driver?!?!?! After all, it's almost 1997!!
 > > 
 > > I would think with the rapidly growing popularity of ISDN that IBM 
 > > would pay more attention to this. Anyway, I am now going to fill out 
 > > the paperwork to return all these useless IBM Waverunner PCMCIA 
 > > cards.
 > > 
 > > I hope others learn from my experience.
 > 
 > That really sucks because it seems that this IBM ISDN device is the 
 > best on the market for mobile users, and I'd figure that there would 
 > be Win95 drivers by now.  I'd been tracking it for almost a year now 
 > (I think its been out longer) and was well aware of the absence of 
 > Win95 drivers according to the info on their WWW page, which made no 
 > sense.
 > 
 > I wonder who they're marketing to, OS/2 users???
 > 
 > Anyhow, I hope you can return them and give them hell.
 > 
 > I know that I'm intending to use a USR Courier I-modem at home with 
 > an ISDN line, and use the 701's internal modem for connections to 
 > POTS service away from home.  I'm just trying to figure out how to 
 > get high-speed serial port in PCMCIA format (if such even exists) to 
 > take full advantage of ISDN's speed and additional compression 
 > throughput; hoping that there's a PCMCIA equivalent to the Hayes 
 > serial-ESP IDE card.
 > 
 > If IBM had the Win95 drivers for their PCMCIA ISDN device, that 
 > would be ideal.
 > 
 > Good Luck...
 > --
 >   Gene <blue@enteract.com>
 >        http://www.enteract.com/~blue
 >        IP #:     206.54.253.122
 >        IP name:  blue.sa.enteract.com
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 
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Friedemann Baitinger           baiti@herrenberg.netsurf.de