> I don't know if all "non-real" modems require driver files to
>have been loaded.
>If you have a WinModem, or some peculiar type of modem that behaves as the
>one I have described, (It might actually be a WinModem. I don't know. It
>was manufactured by Action Tech) then you might get your modem to operate
>under DOS only after win95 has been "restarted in MS-DOS mode". I am no
>Windows expert. I cannot explain why. I am only reporting a personal
>observation. I hope there is someone on this list who can explain it.
>
>Has anyone else ever had a similar experience with a "non-real" modem?
I already described my e-tech, and I'm puzzled because your modem cannot be
a winmodem in sensu stricto because it operates out of windows. What kind
of card is it (isa/pci), and what brand/type of chips does it have?
(I was told about my modem, when I came complaining that it wasn't "real",
that the winmodem that this shop also offered, required 400 mHz processor
or it would slow down the system to non-useable. This because it wouldn't
have it's own processor, and thus a bigger driver emulating one at the cost
of the CPU. My modem does also require a driver, to emulate a comport/UART,
but that is not supposed to slow down the rest. It's this driver though,
that offers the dialog box that may enable dos-support only through "system
-> device management", and only for as long as the driver is loaded (win95
is running).
You could of course, try to install some pnp-aware linux, if you can spare
a mB or 500 on your hdd. Maybe your modem just has terrible IO dress or
IRQ, like the pci ethernet card that had 0x6100 and 11, instead of the
0x300 10 I was used to for it's isa predecessor. Windows may mask such
values back to their 16 bit standards. (Manuals are also a reasonable
source of info, if they would only be attached to their hardware, and would
recognise any other OS than imperial colonial Gatesware)
>
>Sam Heywood
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