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- From: sdo@msn.com (Steve Owen)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Plug and Play 28.8 USR Sportster?
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 15:31:36 GMT
- Organization: SDO
- Message-ID: <4josso$l1a@mrnews.mro.dec.com>
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- In article <4jgljl$9d1@mrnews.mro.dec.com>, sdo@msn.com sayeth unto thee...
- >
- >I may soon make my first venture into Plug and Pray... I've got a Gateway
- >466DX2 (JX30G motherboard) with the MicroFirmware Plug and Play bios upgrade
- >and W95.
- >
- >My question is this: Should I bother with the Plug and Play version of the
- USR
- >Sportster 28.8, or should I go with the "manual setup" variety? Anyone tried
- >such a combo (PnP on JX30 with MicroFirmware bios)?
- >
- >I have no problems with messing with jumpers/IRQ/IO/etc, but I wanted to make
- >sure this would (should) work before I came home with it from the computer
- >show...
-
- Ok... to answer my own question (yes, I'm talking to myself... and waiting for
- the men in the nice white coats)...
-
- Nevermind.
-
- After reading the horror stories on this (and other) newsgroups about Sportster
- 28.8 Modems, I ended up getting a Supra w/Voice Mail. Works like a charm.
- Plugged it in, W95 recognized it, asked for the driver, I stuck in the disk,
- and bingo... all set and ready to go. The voice mail program is quite advanced
- (or at least seems to to me as I've never dealt with such a thing before). I
- checked out incoming faxes, data, and voice mail, and it handled them all with
- no problem.
-
- Later...
- Steve
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