Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:23:42 -200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HELP WITH MY MODEM
Yes, Chad is right:
> Plug and Play doesn't is not synonomous with Winmodem.
"Plug'n Play" takes care - a least, according to that standard - for
some of the BIOS arrangements, like finding/setting address and IRQ.
And this then depends on the motherboard (and its BIOS).
I went off too fast on the combo of "Plug and Play + Rockwell"
- because I had such a thing once, with "Plug and Play" well written
on the box package but a Rockwell "RPI" chip on the card: that latter
one was the evil - though this is not identical with "Winmodem" either.
And in any case it wasn't a true 'Plug-n-pray' modem either as it did
have those jumper fields.
BTW, what I see here around now is either "Plug'n Play" - and then
internal, card modems - without jumpers; and these are strictly all
Winmodems. Or it's external, and then "real" modems. External/real
ones need commport cards though, and these can indeed be "Plug and
Play" in turn. BTW^2: Only that there's hardly any of them to find !
Some months ago I had to mail-order comm-cards from Germany (and there
from a small firm because all the big mail-order distributors didn't
*have* any proper comm-cards any more.) Funny, because the fact that
more recent motherboards come with at least one, often two commports
integrated cannot explain this - peripherals abound, e.g. of the four
units in use here, three have three and one has four serial ports in
use (and all at least one second parallel port too; and it's almost
impossible to find a single parport card).
"RPI" was a proprietary gadget which needed a driver or the driver
functionality built-in to the comm-program which would be able to use
the firm-specific "Prockwell Protocol Interface" which would then do
error correction and compression. I never found a DOS driver nor a DOS
comm-prog for that one. Though this card (and another external modem
likewise with a RPI chip in it) was not "yet" a "Winmodem" - these
came later, and had still less own functionality than those RPI
modems; Winmodems lack not only the error/compression protocols but
even some of the modulation/demodulation functions, which is charged
onto the CPU workload (via driver software).
If there's no manual, or only a bad one, both these bad - RPI, Win -
cases could be sorted out with the FCC register.
// Heimo Claasen // <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> // Brussels 2000-07-29
The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.inti.be/hammer
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