Roger,
I appreciate the tip. I didn't think to look further on the cd as
the instructions didn't say that I needed that. Hmmm.
Michael
At 03:28 PM 12/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Ah, Michael,
>
>Join another frustrated person!
>
>I have a PCMCIA modem card for a laptop that ostensibly is a Lucent Venus
>V.90 modem. I have yet to get it to work with Arachne and I have had it for
>more than 3 years now.
>
>Research that I have done indicates that it *may* have Rockwell chips and
>*may*, in fact, be a win modem, or *may* be a hardware modem.
>
>The manuals that came with the laptop said that I need to install the slot
>and sockets software that come with the modem, but I have yet to find them on
>the CDs that came with the Laptop.
>
>Every once in a while I will spend some time on the web searching for
>answers, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any.
>
>Sorry that I can only commiserate.
>
>Roger Turk
>Tucson, Arizona USA
>
>Michael Hildenbrand wrote:
>
>. > I recently purchased the above modem (has the brand name Actiontec on the
>. > box) 56k Isa internal Data/Fax Modem. It seems the chips are from
>. > Lucent. It claims to work with Dos but I can't seem to get it to respond
>. > to Arachne. You are supposed to set the port and int on the modem, which
>. > I have done constantly, and I can't seem to get Arachne to recognize it,
>. > no matter what the settings. It works well with Win95. I talked with
>. > tech support (via email), but they didn't really seem to understand why
>. > it didn't work. Has anyone worked with this type of modem before and
>. > actually gotten it going?
>
>. > Michael
