>For the past several years I have been using a GV Powerport Platinum Pro
>PC Card with Ethernet. At my home the Platinum Pro PC Card is more than
>sufficient since downloads and uploads are as fast as the 56k modem in my
>iMac given the poor quality of the phone lines. However, at work and at
>several other locations where I often connect the phone lines are far
>better so a 56k modem is a real advantage. My plan is to continue to use
>both. The GV Powerport Platinum Pro PC Card now provides a good Ethernet
>connection at work and sufficient connection speed from my home. I must,
>however, have the GV 56K v.90 software to be able use the new 56k v.90 PC
>Card Modem.
The only thing you need to use the v.90 modem with Remote Access is a
modem script. The GV 28.8-56k script that comes with 8.6 or 9.0 will
work, except it won't report connect speeds properly. There are
scripts updated for the v.90 response codes at Nick Chinn's (grouchy
last survivor of GV ;) site.
http://www.deaddogparty.com/scripts.html
You can also continue to use the same fax software that came with the
Platinum Pro card; the only additional extension you'll need is the
GV 56k combo enabler (which does nothing more than recognise the
card). If you've updated your GV software in the past you probably
already have this file, as the updaters have long installed enablers
for all kinds of GV modems, present or not. If you've pruned the
non-PPro files and no longer have them, you can use Tomeviewer to
extract them from the recent updaters on GV's site.
As a side note, it would be fun to hack one of the GV modem
"enablers" to recognise other modems (or remove the modem check from
the fax software) and thus be able to use one's GV fax software with
another modem (if you had a GV 28.8 card but had bought another
company's 56k fax modem, as I have for instance).
--
Marc Sira | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"If you can't play with words, what good are they?"
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