> I once bought a PCI modem that was advertised to be capable of working > under DOS. I could not get it to work under DOS, but it worked fine > for me under Caldera OpenLinux and also under Window$ 98.
> Sam Heywood I finally get to your message after falling behind in email and news. I assume the modem didn't need any special drivers in Caldera OpenLinux? Some Winmodems work in Linux with a special driver. DOS software tends to be behind the times in hardware support, making assumptions based on older interfaces such as ISA. I find comtool can't see my PCI modem at all, but chat0 or chat can, I hear the dialing. EPPPD does not work for the PCI modem as it did for the ISA modem. LSPPP with CHAT0 dialing works on the PCI modem and connects to the Internet. Ralf Brown wrote a PCI program to find hardware on the PCI bus, yet his RCBOM can't find my PCI modem. CONEX 7.1, however, dating to 1995 (?), accesses the PCI modem, too bad I don't have any BBSes to test on. I can't even setup Net-Tamer for my PCI modem because the setup only allows three hex digits for the base memory address, and the configuration file is in some nondocumented binary format, so I can't simply edit a text file. My PCI modem is on IRQ 11, base 0xd400. I haven't even checked http://www.nettamer.net/tamer.html to see if there were any updated in the last six months (?). I just conclude Net-Tamer is hopelessly backward and don't bother to follow it.
