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- From: jimwhite@cent.com (Jim White)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Courier / retrains / blers / yuck
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 01:56:58 GMT
- Organization: South Shore Software
- Message-ID: <314e0d9e.43333827@news1.io.org>
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- dominguezc@bankerstrust.com (Carlos Dominguez) wrote:
-
- >OK,
- >
- >Heres the scoop. I have a USR courier flashed to the latest 33.6 US ROM, and I
- >cannot connect *anywhere* without it doing a retrain.
- >
- >This is the sequence: dial, connect, CD goes high, MR goes high, ARQ goes high
- >(all simultaneously) , then ARQ goes low, MR goes low, MR goes high, ARQ goes
- >high (one by one).
- >
- >During this 'retrain' process, the brain dead WIN 95 DUN dialer still tries to
- >connect, assumes that PPP is not the right protocol, and tries to use NETBEUI,
- >(which I disabled), and it gives me a "PROTOCOL" error, and then will refuse
- >to connect using PPP until I restart win 95. Crap! I'm forced to use the dial
- >up scripter app, and I configured a script to allow keyboard use, and it just
- >sits there and waits until the modem retrains and then I have to login
- >manually. That works at least.
- >
- >USR gave me a few init strings to try, but it seems that I'm getting hit with
- >some nasty bler counts (via ATI6). At least the courier retrains to 28.8
- >99 percent of the time. :)
- >
- >Any ideas or suggestions would be welcomed.
- >
- >carlos
- >
-
- if you REALLY mean *anywhere*, as in many DIFFERENT target modems,
- then the modem is defective by default and should be returned to USR
- for repair.... I seriously doubt that your phone lines could cause
- only this behavior.... when you are connected, do you hear low level
- noises from the modems speaker??? I have one with a bad
- "motherboard", which I presume has a bad power supply, and it does
- some pretty bizarre things at times....
-
-