Re: Serial Modem and Old Serial Mouse

From: Robert McIntosh (mcintoshrt_at_comcast.net)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 01:23:37 GMT

I've solved the problem and surprised I didn't see it sooner. The
system had a modem installed in the box in a PCI slot. THAT modem is a
winmodem. I removed it, rebooted, and now the Sportster 568600 is
communicating with FBSD over a serial cable.

Thanks again everyone.

-Robert

Robert McIntosh wrote:
> Thanks Simon. It may in fact share the identical board as the 568602,
> but the label says 568600 and the the modem reports 568600 from a
> diagnostics report I'm able to pull from querying the modem while in
> Windows.
>
> I've contacted USRobotics to tell me if this modem is a hard modem or
> winmodem.
>
> Any suggestions on for a replacement? Prefer external serial modem.
>
> Thanks To All,
> Robert
>
> Simon Barner wrote:
>
>>> The modem in question is a USRobotics external serial modem, model #
>>> 568600. I'm unable to find documentation on it, so perhaps it is a
>>> dreaded winmodem. If anyone can verify this, please do! I'd hate to
>>> spend hours working with a winmodem.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a look at the USR web site, and I found this modem (okay, used
>> google groups to find the link ;-)
>>
>> Perhaps that's your modem...
>>
>> http://www.usr.com/support/product-template.asp?prod=5686
>>
>> It's not # 568600, but # 568602, and that made the author of the
>> following
>> article wonder whether there's something wrong with the model numbers.
>>
>> http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=MPG.1132b78812b2b83498968e%40news.crosslink.net&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D568600%2520modem%26hl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg
>>
>>
>> If in doubt, you could ask USR's costumer support for clarification.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Simon

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