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Robyn,
I'll take a stab at why your modem doesn't work in native DOS. Your modem
probably doesn' t work in native DOS because there aren't native DOS
drivers loaded for your external modemA DOS box under windows is still
running under a windows enironment and so uses the same windows drivers so
they work. . I'm not even sure if your WinModem will work in DOS. I think
some do but they have to say so on the package.
You might want to ask the manufacturer of your external modem for native
DOS drivers. There should be a mechanism for loading these drivers when
you leave Windows. I think that mechanism exists in the Autoexec.bat file.
I think, when you leave windows this file is executed much the same way it
was when you booted your old 486 with DOS.
You'll notice the MSCDEX.DLL (or exe) file gets loaded when you leave
windows. I would think that your modem drivers should get loaded at this
point too, from the Autoexec.bat file.
But for now, the chant and herbs sounds like a good plan.
Brian.
-----Original Message-----
From: greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 6:50 PM
To: Ron Augustine
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Falure to establish communication
Well - I also do a ritual chant and pass a bundle of smelly herbs over the
box
when I'm doing an installation. Can't hurt <g>.
Frankly - all this stuff drives me nuts. I'm not dumb - but my husband and
I run
4 computer systems (he has his, I have mine, we have an Internet system and
I
have a notebook) - and I don't want to spend the rest of my natural life
doing
hardware installations (my husband couldn't set up a computer system if his
life
depended on it). And getting everything to work ok is so much harder now
with
Windows 95 (I used to think DOS was hard - little did I know what awaited
me 10
years down the road). Note that I am not a hardware sissy. I used to
dismantle
hard-wired telephone systems in hotels with little screw-drivers to get on
line
when modem connections were an exotic item.
I'll give you a "for example". I like to use an external modem - so I can
see
the lights and hear the sounds and know the status of my connection (by
ear).
Also - my new computer has a WinModem - which isn't supposed to work with
DOS
programs. So I set up an external modem. And both the WinModem and the
external
modem work with DOS programs when I run them through the DOS prompt in
Windows -
but neither works when I leave Windows and work in native DOS. I've spoken
to
the box manufacturer technical support and the modem manufacturer technical
support - and no one has a clue why this is happening. And you wonder why
I'm
superstitious. Perhaps I didn't use enough garlic <g>. Robyn
Ron Augustine wrote:
> Robyn,
>
> It would be really nice if life were that simple! ;-)
>
> Win-95 Plug & Pray assigns your IRQs to your COM ports and other devices
at
> will and leaves your sensitivities and superstitions out of the process.
It
> will also re-assign them as new devices are added and removed. You can
> venture in and manually change the mandated assignments if you know what
> you're doing, but you risk creating further conflicts and may disable PnP
> from working its wizardry on the next addition to your machine.
>
> Some add-on devices are designed to use only specific IRQs and
> base-addresses that may or may not be available at any given point in the
> evolution of your machine. These anomalies can sometimes cause conflicts
> but this is changing as peripheral manufacturers and later versions of
Plug
> & Pray get more in lock-step with the Gates' juggernaut...
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