On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:40:49 -0700, Richard V. Burckhardt wrote: > Hi gang - > This has been covered before, but I just can't remember how to accomplish > this, so I'd appreciate some guidance. > I've got a 386 with a monochrome Hercules monitor (that chokes Arachne) and > 3 megs or RAM that I am sprucing up to give away to a local charity or > school. It's got built-in Com1 & Com2 ports. The internal modem I am adding > is presently set for Com4, which works, but both Com2 (mouse) and Com4 are > using IRQ3, which can potentially cause some problems. It's a Supra Express > PNP 33.6 modem, so there are no jumpers to reset the Com port. > Is there an easy way to force the modem to use a different IRQ? Yes. Within your BIOS setup program you should disable one of your unused built-in comports. Then re-install your modem and mouse. Because you have only 3 megs of RAM, you will probably experience problems in attempting to run any version of Windows higher than 3.0. I don't know if Windows 3.0 supports plug-and-play. You will need to have an OS that supports plug-and-play in order to use the type of modem that you have. If you install a real modem and use a CGA monitor or above, then you would be able to run Arachne. > Since Arachne won't work on this machine, I'm installing Nettamer (along > with Geoworks 1.2) so it will have basic e-mail/newgroup/telnet functions. > Geoworks will give it a pretty good word processor with spelling checker > and a GUI. I do know that Net-Tamer is said to run just fine under Windows in a "dos-box". I have never tried it myself under Windows. > Any suggestions? All the best, Sam Heywood -- This mail sent by Arachne, www graphical browser for DOS -- Visit the Arachne DOS Browser Home Page, http://home.arachne.cz
