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- From: rlewis@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Robert Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sporster: Plug and Pray
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 06:19:54 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- "Neil B. Cohen" <ncohen.brooklaw@pcm.brooklaw.edu> wrote:
-
- >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
- >
- Same thing happened here...seems like Win95 is the culprit though. I
- intalled it a few times and it finally settled on COM2 IRQ 3 (Thank
- God). I don't use the jumpers now.
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