Richard
At 05:47 p 7/10/97 -0400, Daniel G. Linder wrote:
>> > On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Marty Leisner wrote:
>> > > I'm running a builtin modem on a new PC.
>> > > It works fine with win95.
>> > > It says in windows:
>> > > com4 port 0x2e8 irq 12
>> > > I don't see it in autodetect (its a shark modem).
>> > >
>> > > I've done some setserial commands, but to no avail...
>
> I don't know if it is the same, but I know our new Compaq desktop
>machines came with a new type of modem. Using their Win95 drivers, the
>modem comes up fine. Unfortunatly, NT and/or Linux could not see the
>modem at all. After doing some digging, we found out that these modems
>are missing some "common" chips (UART? Buffer?) and instead offload the
>chip functions to the driver. Gheesh, they save 5 cents so they can make
>an incompatible modem that only works with one driver under one operating
>system...
>
> Dan
>
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