On Sun, 04 Feb 2001 13:03:57 +0100, Flip ter Biecht wrote:
>> 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?
Also, another strange thing about it is that it will operate within the
Windows GUI environment, but it won't work in a DOS box. To get it to
work in DOS you have to first start Windows and then restart the computer
in MS-DOS mode.
It is an ISA card, manufactured by Action Tech. I can't tell you what
brand of chips it has right now because this card is in my son's computer
and located at his mother's house about 45 miles from where I live. So
I can't take a look at it right now.
> (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)
This modem handles Arachne, Net-tamer, and Lynx386, by using a standard
comport and IRQ, being com2, irq3.
I hope someone might be able to provide a better name for my non-real modem,
for it appears not to be either a real modem nor a WinModem. If it were
a real modem it would work in native DOS mode. If it were a WinModem, then
it ought to work in a DOS box. It works within DOS only after Windows has
been restarted in MS-DOS mode.
Regards,
Sam Heywood
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