On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, you wrote:
>
> As I understand it, the modem gets configured to IRQ 10 during power-on by
> the PCI gubbins, so there's no way to control that.
>
It's a PCI modem??? Do this...go look and make SURE you
don't have to add any extra software for it to work under
Windows. Have you tried dialing out from a plain, F8 boot?
(i.e. at the boot prompt, hit your F8 key to NOT load *any*
drivers.) I'm not sure how you'd do this with LILO. Maybe
just have a generic Dos / Windows boot floppy with
command.com on it and boot off that?
Anyway, once you've gotten to a no-drivers-loaded boot,
type "echo atdt[some-phone] >comX" (where X=com port of
your alleged modem.)
AFAIK, there is ALMOST no such thing as a PCI modem which
is NOT a WinModem. I think you got ripped.
>
> And it really does work perfectly without the
> network card in there; my > understanding is that a
> WinModem wouldn't be accessible at all, since there >
> wouldn't be a driver for it anywhere in the system. >
> Yes? No?
>
That's the theory anyway...
John
