Just in case the (L)user was mucking around with the bios you might check that the onboard modem has been disabled
Ron Young (M) 919-621-9015 ----- Original Message ----- From: Glenn Hennessee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, December 8, 2005 11:18 am Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Warning: M$ Question > Mark Freeze wrote: > > I realize that this is a Linux forum but... > > > > I have a customer who's modem quit working a couple of days ago. > When I > > looked at it the modem wasn't present in device manager. I > figured it was a > > bad modem and replaced it. When I booted the machine, plug-n- > play did not > > even realize that a new card had been installed. I tried another > modem and > > it still didn't work. If you manually install the drivers win > will tell you > > that the device could not be found. I thought that maybe the pci > slot had > > gone funky but a scsi card installed in the same slot was > detected by win. > > > > Has anyone seen behavior like this or had any experience with > modem problems > > in win2k? > > > > Thanks, > > Mark. > Nothing exactly like that but I did add a USB 2.0 card to system. > It > wouldn't work in the first slot I put it in but it did work in > another > slot. Have you tried a different slot for the modem? Did you try > add/remove hardware and explicitly try to install the card? I have > never > actually had that work but it's worth the 5 minutes it'll take to try. > > glenn > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilugTriLUG Organizational > FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
