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Date:	Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:40:39 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Actiontec modem setup

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In <20040204204703.52811.qmail@joan.linkline.com>, on 02/04/04
at 12:47 PM, waynec@linkline.com said:

In addition to Ray's comments...

>1. I ran their dos pmdmcfg utility and got:

> I/O port CC00
> IRQ # 11

>.... does that mean bootup hardware detection was not really needed?

It depends on what you expect for the hardware detection feature. The
hardware detection feature builds a registration database. The vast
majority of drivers are based on older code and do not consult this
database during initialization. Instead, they do their own hardware
detection. Newer PCI drivers developed in the last 3-4 years usually
register themselves with the hardware manager. This means that the values
the drivers detect get merged with the previously stored detection values.
The result is that the Hardware Manager object usually displays the
correct values.

>I tried to use the Actiontec modem with my old Compuserve CIM program
>with the old modem settings but it gave me an immediate error:
> "Could not initialize port".

This could be any number of things.

What does:

mode com2

from the command line report? What does the Hardware Manager report? Did
you disable COM2 in the BIOS?

>The part about the "WinModem" is troublesome, but the modem itself has a

Yep. That's a bad indication. Get:

pci048vka.zip 229394 2003/07/07 PCI+AGP bus sniffer

and compare the output it reports for the modem with what Ray's Actiontec
reports.

Regards,

Steven

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