Mail Archives: opendos/2001/04/24/10:09:11
At 07:38 AM 4/24/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I think this might be important. I use dr dos 7.02 and 7.03 interchangeably,
>maybe because i can't tell the difference, on new and old PC's alike. new
>pc's only offer pci slots, so my internal modems must be pci. i have never
>been able to teach old dos applications, word perfect, Relay Gold, others)
>to speak to pci modems. There seem to be several reasons, but is the OS
>involved here? Even when I find a dos application that seems to invite me to
>specify the interrupt and com port, in the end i am forced to an external
>modem. where do i look for answers. Are certain recent vintage boxes or
>motherboards or bios designs better than others? in the case of a recent
>pentium iii compaq, heavy tweaking of the bios setups still seemed to offer
>no answers.
>thanks, rich w chicago.
>
This has nothing to do with the motherboard or BIOS.
The problem is that most PCI modems are controllerless "WinModems". A
hardware
modem has its own CPU that responds to AT commands, dials telephone
numbers, and negotiates speed, error correction and compression protocols
with other modems. A "WinModem" relies on the PC to do all the work. For
this it needs driver software that is only available for Windows 9x (or
Linux for some modems, see www.linmodems.org).
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