Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:34:07 -0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Problems with 50CT and 3COM 56k/Ethernet Card
>From: "Dave Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I Bought the same Card a while back I found that my simple tech card works
>better so I have thrown the 3com into my Junk Box
>Dave
Oh great... What did you pay for your 3Com card? And is the SimpleTech
card a 56k/Ethernet combo card? If it works for you, I may see if I can
return this 3COM, and try to find your card somewhere.
Hopefully someone out there may still have an answer for what's going on
with there being no settings for an interrupt address of memory range in my
PCIC settings. Yes?
Matt
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mattzacson Last Name [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 9:50 PM
>To: Libretto
>Subject: Problems with 50CT and 3COM 56k/Ethernet Card
>
>
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:44:57 -0800
>From: "mattzacson Last Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Problems with 50CT and 3COM 56k/Ethernet Card
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>Hotmail is messing up their already messed up system by installing some new
>servers that pop up a lot more advertising, [time to Yahoo David ;-P], and
>a new interface, and now all my mail is gone! Hopefully temporarily. So
>I've re-subscribed to the Libretto list from my My-Deja account.
>
>First of all, let me remind people that I'm working on a 50CT.
>
>Last week I mentioned that I was ordering a 3COM Megahertz 56k/Ethernet
>Combo card. Someone else (forgive my forgetting your name) was having
>problems getting a Megahertz card running in their Libretto. I've been 3
>days now, and have run up against a brick wall with 3COM support.
>
>I got the 3COM Megahertz 3CCFEM556 56K/Ethernet PC card that I mentioned
>seeing at the Centrex International website (www.centrex.com ... or
>www.centrex-intl.com?). After installing the drivers, I was only
>connecting
>at 24,000 bps, and tested transfer rates consistently at 2.3 - 2.4 K
>Bytes/sec. while doing back to back tests with my old 33.6K modem that
>consistently showed transfer speeds of 2.9K Bytes/sec..
>
>In 3 rounds of calls to 3COM tech support, as per their advice, I:
>
> 1. Flashed the card to upgrade it to the V.90 specifications
>
> 2. Removed this card's drivers and installed the drivers for the
> 3CCFEM556B (with the added 'B' there) modem.
>
> 3. Tryed forcing the modem's connection speed with the following AT
> commands:
>
> AT&U20
> ATZ
> AT&F
> AT&F2
>
>None of the above resulted in getting a connection faster than 24000 bps.
>
>The last call with 3COM ended at looking in Device Manager under "PCMCIA
>Socket" where we looked at the properties for the "PCIC or compatible
>PCMCIA
>controller". Under the "Resources" tab of those properties, the 3COM tech
>person said that my settings were missing configurations for an interrupt
>request, and a memory range. The only item listed under "Resources" was:
>
> Input/Output Range 03E0-03E1
>
>Also, under the properties for "Computer" where the interrupts are listed,
>we noticed that there was nothing assigned to IRQ9. However the tech
>person
>said that infrequently this setting may actually be there, but is hidden
>
>The 3COM tech support person said I should ask Toshiba (so I'm here asking
>you guys!) about "any advice on reassigning resources" for this 50CT, and
>suggested the following:
>
>_Finding out if a utility exists to reconfigure these resources.
>
>_Also to check for a BIOS upgrade, although I'm pretty sure (not certain) I
>have in fact upgraded that in the past.
>
>_Also I should check to find out if these resources can be set manually in
>BIOS.
>
>_And last, I should check to see if there is a procedure for removing the
>existing settings for this "PCIC or compatible PCMCIA controller" in Device
>Manager, and then reinstalling them.
>
>A couple of their support reps thought that this 75MHz CPU just might not
>have the power to get this modem up to speed. The modem DOES in fact have
>a
>hardware controller, I checked with them on that. And I imagine many of
>you
>have managed to get 56K modems working in their 50CTs, right?
>
>The other thing I'd like to do if I can find a friend with another
>notebook,
>is to try setting up this card in a different system to see if the card
>might be faulty.
>
>Phew... well, thanks a lot folks. I'm crossing my fingers.
>
>Matt
>
>
>
>
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