On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Flip ter Biecht wrote:
...
| Anyway, I couldn't find a decent ISA modem, so I bought a
| 56k pci card with a rockwell chipset and a cdrom with a
| driver called e-tech. Shop assured me that it'd be linux
| compatible, but didn't know about dos. Nor does Arachne.
| (Not comtool, nor preset com3) The box reads fm-56pci-rwm
| for type number, and that's also what win95 diags say it
| is. Com3 however, does not show in the startup screen that
| the award bios puts up. (That would be the case with most
| internal modems with their own uart.)
|
| Does anyone have experience with e-tech modems?
Hi, Bart, No, I do not know about these, but I know hwere to
look. I find that the company now appears to be Well
Communications (E-tech seems to have disappeared). Much worse
though is (I am sorry to say) that what you have there appears to
be a controllerless modem, in other words a dreaded winmodem. It
will not work in DOS or Linux (might work in a DOS box in
Windoze, perhaps).
Take it back and tell the shop they got it wrong. What you want
is model number FM-56PCI-TP. This is a hardware PCI modem and
should work fine with Arachne (once you can find out what IRQ,
IOPORT it is using). Otherwise you want an FM-56PC-TI, a hardware
ISA modem (with jumpers).
Sorry again, for the bad news. If you want the gory details, look
here:
http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Regards, and hope things are ok with your mother...
--
Gregor J Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boston MA
