Kit,
Doesn't your system have any of it's own serial ports? Not the ones on
the card you have your mouse in.
Anyway, you don't need a slot.
Plug the modem into the extra serial port on the card your mouse is
plugged into. However, you'll have to figure out to configure that port
to it can talk to the modem. You'll have to use irq and address that is
not being used by something else. Check your bios to see what it thinks
is built into the computer.
Kit wrote:
>
> Audrey this is why:
>
> all other slots, be it PCI or ISA are taken up...
> I have a logitech marble mouse connected to com1 ...03f8-03ff IRQ 4
> and on the same card, is a 25 pin female plug
> then,
> I have a BestData VW-PCI 56k winmodem hooked up to com2 IRQ 9,
> in windows, and IRQ3 in DOS
>
> I do have two ISA slots left, that are free...
>
> Audrey Beck wrote:
>
> > Kit wrote:
> > >
> > > I have an old MOUSE SYSTEMS serial ISA card...
> > > with jumpers for setting IRQs and COM ports...
> > >
> > > so I assume...I can use this card to install a external modem...
> > >
> > > is this correct?
> > >
> > > if so, HOW do I do this for
> > > US Robotics 33.6 sportster
> > > external modem
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> >
> > The external modem knows nothing. It's just connected to whatever you
> > set the port up as. So, check your original system for serial ports.
> > Check the bios to find what it has setup for serial ports. Then, setup
> > the serial card to NOT use any of those ports or irqs or addresses.
> > Once you have it setup, then just connect the modem to the port. How
> > come you can't just connect the modem to a serial port already in your
> > system?
>
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