Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:49:07 -0700 | From | "Richard A. Soderberg" <> | Subject | Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #987 |
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And again, the presario 6704 has a modem rather like this. Except mine was irq 10. Internal 33.6 voice/modem. Fun, eh? Compaq decided that windows was a priority over function.
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 > >-- >Daniel Linder W:(402) 393-3997 C:(402) 490-1673 P:(402) 579-1615 >National / TechTeam WebCentric >www.webcentric.net / www.techteam.com >Ask me about Crutchfield's *great* return policy! > > >
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