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- From: azettl@direct.ca (Al Zettl)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Cardinal Modem / W95 Driver Help Needed
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 01:32:14 GMT
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- On Sun, 07 Jan 1996 02:54:27 GMT, dulnev@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu
- (Jason Dulnev) wrote:
-
- >kdixon@mci.newscorp.com (Kris Dixon) wrote:
- >
- >>Rich Cimo <rcimo@superlink.net> wrote:
- >>
- >>>I thought about upgrading the firmware. But.... why fix something thats
- >>>not broken. Are you having and problems?
- >>
- >>Rich, I had the same feeling. I did decide to do the upgrade and
- >>there are pros and cons. I upgraded to the 1.40 firmware. My
- >>connections are definitely more consistant and usually at a higher
- >>rate. The big negative from my view is that I have become so
- >>accustomed to identifying a logon by its sound that it drives me nuts
- >>now that it is silent in Win95. The documentation says that they
- >>disabled the modem dial/connect sound only in the Win 95 software.
- >
- >You don't have to go nuts, you can enable connection sound quite
- >easily (you would't get the dialing sound though). Just pick the
- >driver for the external version of the modem: 288XF (or something like
- >that) from the inf file included with the firmware upgrade. Works
- >great! According to the Cardinal tech it's a good temporary solution
- >until they make a new driver for 288I because these modems are
- >identical.
- >
- >Jason Dulnev
- >dulnev@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu
-
-
- Go to regedit and search for the string "dialsuffix"
- The default entry is ";"
- Change it to "" (no semi-colon)
- Should work with all "no sound" modems!!
-
- Al Zettl
- azettl@direct.ca
-