From:	"Rich Wilson ix" <rawilson AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: PCI vs ISA
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:21:10 -0500
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thanks,
actually i bought hardware internal modems, from two companies, after
speaking to their tech people to be sure they had controllers. Unfortunatley
that was part of the solution for sure, but not entire thing.
have you used old procomm, q modem, pcanywhere for dos (ver 5 i think) etc
with pci hardware modems, under dr dos?

can you recommend dos based modem, remote control, fax, web browser, and e
mail programs for dr dos user, particularly the average dos user, that you
know work with pci hardware modems. incidently i use corel word perfect
since it bundles a fax application tacked on.

thanks alot!

rw

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Marcum [mailto:bmarcum AT iglou DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 9:03 AM
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: PCI vs ISA


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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