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re: modem/DUN? inoperative
Friday, March 21, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by john
(15 messages posted)
Thank you both. I will try the suggested steps and, if unsuccessful, will call it
a day and look for a decent PCMCIA. You mention an independent DSP?? that could
be attached to the serial port (9 pin?) at the back. Could you fill me in on this,
as such a connection would be more suitable for me than the PC card on the side.
On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 7:12 pm, ancien wrote:
>Thanks for your reply. It helps. C K makes good points also, especially since the
>modem was working and appeared to fail.
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>The original modem is a 28.8 right? Is it worth resurrecting? You could use an external
>with an independent DSP thru the serial port and get better performance. It would
>take some of the load off the Pentium II 166 CPU.
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>Win98 has built in drivers for VoiceView type modems 9600, 14400, 19200, 28800.
You
>could try a fresh manual install, as an added modem, checking the do not detect
box,
>and choosing your modem from the list. That might resolve the driver question raised
>by C K.
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>Sometimes software just seems to get stuck or confused. VoiceView modems have a
voice
>mode and a data mode. A list of commands supported will be in the registry from
the
>original install at
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>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem
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>Highlight the key for the internal modem, probably 0001, in the left pane and there
>will be information about the modem in the right pane, including the .inf file name.
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>Below each key are subkeys. The Init subkey gives the initialization string that
>is being sent to the modem each time you make a connection. Other subkeys are AT
>commands. You can use Win98 utility HyperTerminal to send commands directly to the
>modem and see if it responds, or add a command to the Extra Settings area of the
>Advanced Connection Settings dialog box to force data mode after initialization,
>for example.
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