On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 04:04:41 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote: >> 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. Nope, no drivers needed. The problem with the modem was that it did not come with jumpers and I could not get it to take a standard com port and irq. This one would take only irq 5! Most DOS communications programs insist on having modems taking standard com ports and irqs. > 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. You could edit the setup file with a hex editor. I don't know if you could get the file to work for you, but you can in fact edit it. <snip> Sam -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
