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- From: scharles@megalink.net (Steven J. Charles)
- 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: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 10:44:51 GMT
- Organization: Megalink Internet
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- sdo@msn.com (Steve Owen) wrote:
-
- >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)...
-
-
- I have the EXACT same motherboard AND the Microfirmware PnP BIOS
- upgrade that you have!! I tried the PnP OPTION for the Sportster (The
- PnP Version can EITHER be PnP (Take off all the Jumpers) OR you can
- set it up the old fashion way with setting the Jumpers and IRQ. Well
- of course I tried PnP...DID NOT WORK!!! The modem and the mouse (I had
- my mouse on COM1...I don't the ps/2 mouse port on my JX-30G). I
- worked on it for s long time...but the PnP did work (At one point the
- modem worked but I had to keep the mouse moving for the data to pass
- through the modem...weird!! Anyway..I ran the Com POrt program that
- came with the sportster, it said set you modem on COM3 IRQ5...I put
- the jumpers on and I was back in business!! No Problems since...LOVE
- the modem!! Good luck
-
-
- Steven J. Charles
- scharles@megalink.net
- http://www.megalink.net/~scharles/
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