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Date:	Wed, 8 May 2002 22:35:06 PST7
From:	"Benedict G. Archer" <bgarcher@gte.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: LAN connection lost after use modem

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An actiontec PCI modem and onboard 3com NIC insisted on using the same
IRQ. That was OK until I found that using the modem caused the LAN
connection to be lost--can't ping the DHCP server. After trying lots of
things, I finally got the NIC using IRQ11 and the modem to use IRQ10 (as
determined by a DOS utility, pmdmcfg, that came with the modem) by
adding a reserve.sys line to config.sys. If I set hardware detection to
anything but off, the system won't boot. The pmdmcfg utility tells me
that the modem is using IRQ 10 and address 1800. So, I added the
explicit argument (4,1800,10) to the device = ... com.sys line to set up
com4 for the modem. But I can't get the modem to work. Incharge (the
only need I have for the modem) returns an error on trying to initialize
the modem. Spent a lot of time trying different BIOS setups too, but
nothing I've tried there has any effect. Where should I look? Is the
problem in InCharge, in com configuration or somewhere else? It's an
all SCSI system so there are spare IRQs.

Ben A.

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