Please can one of our resident experts help me with this one: someone
recently gave me a 56k PCI modem and I thought that I'd try it in place
of my 33.6k ISA modem with DOS Arachne. I plugged it in and booted up
and the BIOS reported that it had updated its 'ESCD' (whatever that
is...) for the 'new hardware'. It didn't, however, report an extra COM
port, which it always did with the old modem (COM3 at 2e8 hex). No DOS
programme (Arachne, Modem Doctor, IOINFO) could find the new modem.
Since I also have Linux on this machine, I decided to try that. I
read through the PNP 'How-to' document and managed to get Linux to tell
me what IO address the modem was at. It said 6100 hex and even reported
what sort of modem it was, so it's definitely there.
So I have two questions: how can an IO address be at 6100 - I
thought that PC IO addresses were in the range 000 to 3FF hex? Also, how
can I persuade my DOS programmes - particularly Arachne V1.7r3 - to use
this modem?
Any help greatly appreciated! Thanks!
All the best,
Gerald.
