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Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 05:18:57 PST7
From: Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.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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If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
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Also, are you sure you are using COM4 for the modem on your system?
Otherwise, your CONFIG.SYS line for the modem looks about right.

HCMotin
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Harry Chris Motin wrote:
>
> =====================================================
> If you are responding to someone asking for help who
> may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
> REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
> =====================================================
>
> Ben,
>
> What driver are you using for the modem serial line and does the modem
> share IRQ 10 with any other device? I had a problem getting my modem to
> work about 2 years ago, after I got a new system. Steven Levine was kind
> enough to point out that some versions of COM.SYS do not like to share
> IRQ's. I updated to a newer version of IBM's COM.SYS and that did the
> trick. I believe you can also use Ray Gwinn's SIO.SYS.
>
> HCMotin
> ______________________________________________________________________________
>
> "Benedict G. Archer" wrote:
> >
> > =====================================================
> > If you are responding to someone asking for help who
> > may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
> > REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
> > =====================================================
> >
> > 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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