Mail Archives: opendos/2001/04/24/13:03:35
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Rich Wilson ix wrote:
| 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.
The chat program that is part of dospppd knows how to talk to a
pci modem, so anything that can use an emulated ethernet pppd
connection should work. I have arachne working with an Actiontec
pci call waiting modem on a machine running DR-DOS 7.2, and the
ftp and telnet programs from CUTCP also work fine. I believe
lspppd can also talk to a pci modem, though I haven't tried it.
The only problem you might have is finding out the ioport and irq
that the modem is using. My actiontec came with a diagnostic
program...but there are others, one of which is by Ralf Brown
(yes, he of the interrupt list, look on his web page).
Otherwise, I have not found any legacy dos software that will
work. I used to use Wordperfect and Bananacom, but they are
no-goes. They expect comports and ioports to be only in the old
dos serial port ranges. I also tried the comport tools package,
without success.
HTH
Regards
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Gregor J Jones mailto:gjones AT bu DOT edu
Boston MA
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