>From looking at Archtek's website, it looks like you might not have a true hardware modem. It sounds like part of the functionality is handled by the modem hardware, but the host computer is required to handle more than the normal amount of processing.
Did you run PCICFG.exe to configure this modem under DOS? Have you contacted Archtek support? You may need to load a TSR to make this modem work with DOS. The Archtek website has a link to Intel for driver updates for this chipset. The last modem I bought was several years ago and I had to do some shopping to find one that still had jumpers to to set the com port and addresses. It made it easy to set up. Unfortunately this box doesn't have an ISA slot so it had to stay in the old machine. On 12 Feb 02, at 11:37, Carl P. Nelson wrote: > Hello, all . . . I made a serious blunder: although there was > nothing wrong with my venerable rig, which has a Cyrix chip > that's half-way between a 486 and an early Pentium, I bought a > new one with a 20-G drive and lots of bells and whistles. Most of > the routine installations (including System Commander which > allows me to seamlessly boot in MS-DOS 6.22, DR-DOS or > LINUX) gave no problems, but telecommunications are a disaster. > I will not use @#$%^&*(* "Windows", so I bought a 56 PCI > modem (Archtek SmartLink 5634PCV) that was supposed to work > with DOS and LINUX. The only thing that works is Procomm > Plus, which is hardly ever used. PEGASUS for DOS, Arachne > 1.66 and Nettamer do not. Jude, Sam, Dale, Martin-I, Martin-S > and Ian all kindly made suggestions, but so far none of them have > worked. Jude suggested putting the "wake-up" program in each > of the .BAT's, so we did that, even though it's also in the > AUTOEXEC.BAT. Dale suggested trying the LSPPP dialer/packet > driver instead of the DOSPPPD I had been using on the old rig. > We did, with no effect. Sam told me a bit about Nettamer, so we > down-loaded a copy. Here's what came up on the screen: > LADSoft PPP Packet Driver Ver 0.75 Copyright (c) LADSoft > Dialing...Connecting to > network...Authenticating...Authenticating...Authenticating... and so > forth until we terminated the attempt. Jude said "you may not > have a correct modem initialization string in both sets of programs > in the proper spot." If by that he means the string of digits that > the ISP gave us to insert, we triple-checked them, and anyhow > they worked in Arachne 1.66 in the old rig. If there's something > else involved I don't know anything about it. Ian said that there > had been some discussion of DOSPPPD and LSPPP on an > Internet news group demon.ip.support.pc, but we didn't find > anything there. Martin-S mentioned EPPPD.EXE, but I have > somehow lost the note, so I don't know if it's something we need > to check out. As I said in an earlier note, I'm reasonably > proficient in DOS (I used to think I was an expert, now I'm not so > sure) and am slowly and painfully getting to understand REAL > Linux, that's to say without the %^&*(2354 "GUI". That'll take > more time than it used to. I'm still sentient, but my 82-year old > brain is slower to learn than it used to be. If anyone has any > suggestions as to what we do next, I'd surely appreciate it. > Carl. > > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. > Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. > More info can be found at; > http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
