This is about getting your pcmcia network card working on a dos laptop, useful for dos networking with a windows network.
A pc card network card is otherwise known as a pcmcia network card, or pcmcia nic.
There are two ways to get a pcmcia nic working in dos. You can get one driver, called a point enabler that talks to your pcmcia board as well as your pcmcia nic, or you can get cardsoft and couple that with the driver for your nic, usually a .clb file. Cardsoft provides two services, called socket services and card services.
For more information about how pcmcia works for dos laptops you have to read Dave Ruske's excellent article Making Sense of PCMCIA. Without understanding how it works, its a lot more difficult getting it to work ;)
To get your network card noticed on a laptop you have two choices. You can use a point enabler (maybe on your driver disk in a directory called 'enabler'). This might interfere with other pcmcia cards, but its simpler. I actually got my point enabler for my nic working with the point enabler for my modem, by telling the point enabler for my modem to use a specific com port, i/o address, and memory address. In my case, the point enablers did not interfere with one another, which is a godsend because they take less memory than using card services with socket services, which is what CardSoft does. It's also simpler to me.
The other choice you have is using something like CardSoft 3.1 It will ask you for a password to download it, use username 'driver' and password 'all'. This username/password combination is only used for making sure you're not a spammer, so its no big deal to give it out. Everyone uses the same login.
If you decide to use CardSoft, you will need a .clb file for your pcmcia nic, which you can get off your driver disk, once you've found it ;) Mine was in a directory called 'pcmcia'.
Once you get the lights on your pcmcia nic dongle lighting up, you're home free. Now you just continue with the instructions at dos networking. Note that you're going to need one more driver to connect your dos laptop to your windows network via the Microsoft Network Client 3.0, that driver is the ndis2 driver for your pcmcia nic.
NOTE: Read the cardsoft documentation if you end up using it. Well since I know you wont, remember that if you're using an extended memory manager like EMM386 then you have to use the 'noems' line to bar a memory range that starts with D000 and ends with DFFF. It looks like this 'DEVICE=C:\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-DFFF' Adjust for where your EMM386.EXE lives ;)