Guenter Bietzig wrote:
>Ok, now I've learnd (in my older days) that an external modem is a real one.
>Because I did never seen or used a winmodem, I don't know that ;-)
>
As we're all getting younger by the day, let me confirm that the problem
with winmodems is that there's no comport in them. External modems use an
existing comport and should be able to react to a valid signal sent through
that comport. (It does however not mean that every external modem is hayes
compatible...)
What, by the way are standard io addresses and irq values for internal pci
modems? (I noticed a new help page in arachne 1.69 at
file://doc\pcimodem.htm, which just gives an example with io d800 irq 10.
It took me months lately to find out the address of a pci ethernet card at
0x6100 irq 11 -or in fact redhat setup found it for me- and I'd be most
happy with a more complete list of pci devices because the luxury of
pentium, pci and pnp is still rather new in the recycling stores where I
usually compose my systems)
Apart from that, I found another nasty bit of hardware: a Compaq Qvision
pci video card (1 mb, from 1996), that is autodetected nicely by win95, but
not by Arachne. Of course I can leave my mother a full featured pc with all
the winshit I couldn't use anyway, but maybe someone knows this card for
the better?
Bart
Doetinchem, Netherlands
