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- From: "Neil B. Cohen" <ncohen.brooklaw@pcm.brooklaw.edu>
- Subject: Re: USR Sporster: Plug and Pray
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- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 20:04:50 GMT
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- I agree with the assessment of plug & play.
- I recently acquired a USR 28.8 promoted as Win95 compatible plug & play.
- I followed the direction (take all connectors off jumpers, etc.) and used plug &
- play to install. Win95 somehow allocated COM3 to the modem which then generated IRQ
- conflicts with my mouse on COM1. The result was that no software using Win95 to
- find my modem could do so. Even USR's own communications software couldn't use the
- modem.
- So, I took out the modem, put on the connectors to set it for COM2, installed it the
- old-fashioned way, and now everything works fine.
- I have no idea if plug & play the problem is with the modem or WIN95
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