Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User wrote:
> New (second hand, new to me!) 'puter today! 233, big Hard Drive 2.1G
> lots of room for software, fast on the html and so on..
Congrats!
> It's got a Rockwell internal modem of some kind. Arachne detects it on
> com1, IRQ4 and inputs info into ppp dialler ok. When asked to dial,
> Arachne says it can't initialize the modem. Any ideas anyone?
Sounds like you dont have the correct initilization string.
I guess that the platform you have on it now is Windows 9x?
(I dont know what else can cause a modem to appear on a COM without
it being actually there.).
Here's how to extract the data from Windows:
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager
-> Modem
You should either see "General Modem" or the brandname of your modem.
double-click it. Choose the "modem" tab. You should see the (real?)
port of the modem in there. Now, for the IRQ:
Go back to the Device Manager menu. On the top of the device list,
there should be the option "Computer". Double-click it. You will
receive a list of "resources" and where they are being used at.
Choose "Interrupt Request (IRQ)" (it should be chosen as default).
There, look for the IRQ that is used with the COM that your modem
is using.
Thats it!
If its the same settings, or if its diffrant settings but Arachne
still doesnt work even after using these settings, then there are
3 options: 1)Did you tried to use it without Windows on the background?
Try if you didnt. 2)WinModems should work on DOS if Windows is running
in the background. If you still cant get it to work from a DOS box,
its another problem. (or its a really low-quality winmodem.)
3)You dont have the right initilization string. :)
Either try to get it from the book, or maybe that dialer that IE
is using got it somewhere... (though I heard that IE is so user
friendly, that it doesnt let you do any _real_ setup. like init
strings. <sigh>)
Or Botton
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