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- Path: netcom.com!puma
- From: puma@netcom.com (Gary Breuckman)
- Subject: Re: WFWG comm driver vs. Win 3.1 comm driver
- Message-ID: <pumaDMs7y7.KBo@netcom.com>
- Organization: organized?? me?
- References: <31068dbd.82725947@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <4e6dlj$ns0@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <4fokh6$jg1@mari.onr.com> <31212987.1129697@nntp.ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:08:31 GMT
- Sender: puma@netcom11.netcom.com
-
- In article <31212987.1129697@nntp.ix.netcom.com>,
- Jesse Salb <jsalb@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
- >On Mon, 12 Feb 1996 23:43:13 GMT, psaletan@onr.com (Paul Saletan)
- >wrote:
- >
- >>billy@mix.com wrote:
- >>
- >>>Jesse Salb <jsalb@ix.netcom.com> writes:
- >>>
- >>>> In trying to troubleshoot an intermittent hang I've been having with
- >>>> Procomm/Win 2.11, a technician on their Compuserve forum told me to
- >>>> replace the COMM.DRV that comes with WFWG 3.11 with the older COMM
- >>>> driver that came with Win 3.1. Can this possibly be right? It was my
- >>>> impression that the WFWG driver is vastly improved over the older
- >>>> driver, much faster, etc.
- >>>
- >>>No, no, no - these are two very different 'operating systems' (using
- >>>the term very loosly here) and the drivers for them are also different.
- >>>This will NOT work.
- >>
- >>Hmmm... not true for everyone. I have been using the Win 3.1 COMM.DRV
- >>(dated 3/10/92) in place of the Nov. '93 run using WFWG under OS/2
- >>Warp. I had to do this because the WFWG comm driver would lock up my
- >>machine and I was advised that the Win 3.1 release doesn't. Runs fine
- >>for me, Perhaps this is because OS/2 disables Windows virtual device
- >>drivers but for me there was no problem substituting the earlier one
- >>for the later.
- >>
- >>
- >>// Paul Saletan
- >>// psaletan@onr.com Austin, Texas USA
- >>
- >
- >Has anyone else successfully used the Win 3.1 driver under WFWG in a
- >Jesse
-
-
- If you have a 16550 UART, you would not want to do this because the
- older (non-WFW) driver does not understand them and will treat it the
- same as a 16450. Otherwise, go ahead and try it (save the old file),
- if it doesn't work you can always put the original driver back.
-
- If you do have a 16550, there are other drivers out there (mostly on
- the modem mfg's net and BBS sites) that you could try.
-
-
-
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