--- winsor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > er uh......nope not a winmodem....this modem had an > onboard proccessor. > Funny thing though.......there were no > jumpers.....and the V.90 faxmodem > I purchased less than two weeks earlier(exact same > model) had jumpers. > A "true Winmodem" has no onboard proccessor as the > task of proccessing > is passed onto your main CPU. > I recently learned via a verbal (E-mail) battle with > several members of > "3 com tech support" that no further USR modems with > be equipted with > jumpers. > Being firmly told "3 com does NOT support > Linux".......so as for now an > external 3 com faxmodem would be the only logical > choice if a person > prefers 3 com/USR products > Well I'm not surprised that 3com does not support Linux, considering how much trouble I'm having with this setup. I think I should have got an external modem from the beginning. I'm still having trouble, but I think I'm starting to catch on...I now am pretty sure when I'm at least going to get a dial-out. On the clone I was working on, I checked the BIOS, nothing at all about integrated periph. or even a mention of a serial port. So it seems I cannot disable the ports. I got two successes on COM1 COM2 and COM 3. But it seems I can never consistently get communication up and running. This is with the AT&F string however, I forgot to leave it blank. So I jumped to a Compaq 486/33, I found the part in the BIOS setup to disable the ports on this one. disabled both COM1 and COM2 for good measure. Same thing happened with COM2 and COM3: success once with a blank INIT string on COM2, success twice on COM3(no init string)then after that I got the 'not 8-bit clean' error again. Just FYI, once I got a successful connection, I would just cut the power and boot up again to see if it could do it again. I have yet to try COM1 and COM4....wish me luck. I'm cc:ing this to the Mailing List. -- Michael _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ShareTheNet maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.webserv.com/mailman/listinfo/sharethenet
