I don't know your laptop but you can boot linux single floppy and see the
equipment list detected. There is a pretty good chance that DOS will not
do any PCMCIA on a 5x86 CPU without some proprietary drivers. Type your
laptop id into a web search engine and see what comes up.

Peter

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Josh Koffman wrote:

>Hi all. Recently I was given an old 5x86 based laptop manufactured by
>"Magitronic", model 800, type 820T. Since the company is out of
>business, I'm trying to figure out what hardware is in it so I might try
>to obtain drivers somewhere. Does anyone know of a program that will do
>some sort of system inventory. I have a blank hard drive, so it can't be
>windows based. I only have a floppy, so I'd like it to be compact if
>possible. Would MSD (of forgotten days of MSDOS) give me PCMCIA
>controller names? Any other suggestions? Anyone have one of these
>laptops by chance? :)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Josh
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