Question about 'Setting up Dial-Up Networking'
Sunday, June 16, 2002 at 8:29 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Timothy Hinds
(4 messages posted)
I have a question about Setting
up Dial-Up Networking:
I'm out of things to try & I'd appreciate any fresh ideas anybody can give me. My
wife's Windows 98 system (from Micron) reported a registry error yesterday, which
SCANREG claimed to have fixed. However, since then, Dialup Networking does not see
the U.S. Robotics 33.6K internal PnP fax modem that was working fine with DUN before.
When I try to add a DUN connection, DUN doesn't see the modem, but instead searches
for a modem on COM1 & COM2.
I have tried all possible combinations of the following, including all of the at
once:
* remove the modem logically in Win98
* remove the modem physically, reboot, reinstall after verifying its absence
* remove the COM1 & COM2 ports from Win98
* disable the serial ports in the BIOS
* remove & reinstall the Dialup Adapter
* uninstall & reinstall Dialup Networking itself
I have verified that the modem works fine in another machine.
I have tried different IRQ settings for the comm ports in Windows and tried enabling
different combinations of them in the BIOS, trying to get them to go elsewhere than
COM1 & COM2. I've succeeded in getting them to be COM5 & COM6, but then DUN only
searches for a modem on COM5 & COM6, but not COM1 where I made the modem go, or COM3
where I let it go at other times. DUN insists on only searching the serial ports
Windows sees. When it fails to see a modem, it lets me attempt to configure one
manually, which I can do except that it only gives me the option of having it be
on one of the system-visible com ports. I've even tried having the modem share an
IRQ with one of the system-visible comm ports, but DUN still doesn't see it.
If you have any idea of what to do, or even if you can confirm that this really is
as weird as it seems to me, I'd greatly appreciate it. Right now I'm staring at
a possible system rebuild (from FDISK on up, with a few dozen applications to reinstall
after I get Win98 back up)! If you can give me any better alternatives, or even corroborate
that this is the only way to go, I'd be grateful. You can post a reply here, please,
and/or email to tim@thinds.com.
Thanks!
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