At 12:30 21-8-01 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >>On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:05:41 +0200, Flip ter Biecht wrote:
> >>
> >>> 1. Do you run arachne under windows? If not, the drivers provided by
> >>> windows will have to be installed in their DOS version (if exist).
See the
> >>> listing in windows Control Panel -> system -> devices (or similar) ->
> >>> sound, for details on the soundcard. Maybe you can activate dos
support
> >>> from there, too (but then only for windows' dos-box)
> >>
> >>I have found that in the case of two PCs, each having a WinModem
> >>and Windows 95 installed, I could not run Arachne unless I first
> >>start up Windows and then click
> >>START > SHUT DOWN > RESTART IN MS-DOS MODE.
> >>Neither of these machines could run Arachne in native DOS mode, nor
> >>could they run Arachne from within a "DOS box". On these machines
> >>Arachne would run only in the "restarted in MS-DOS mode".
> >
> >Is that not just a lack of memory? What's the mem/c output? Does the
modems
> >com port exist?
>
> The problem has nothing to do with memory. The problem is that the
modem will
> not respond to any command issued to it from within a "DOS-box",
regardless of
> available free DOS memory.
>
> Sam Heywood
>
That sounds familiar to me. I introduced my modem to the list last january;
it's a e-tech pci56RWM and it's driver had to be activated for dos-support
from the control-panel -> system -> devices dialog box. If yours does run
after windows though, it seems to be some initialisation problem. Does the
comport exist in the dos-box?
BTW, there appear to be gradations in losemodems: some rely on windows
drivers for all tasks, and some have a hardware processor of their own, but
just no hardware comport. I've been told that the latter may function with
up to date linuces, which would implicate that a standardised driver may
exist.
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