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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Sportster Windows Modem
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 21:58:16 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
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- References: <4kjhj3$5vf@news.isl.net>
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
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- Gilbert Baron (gbaron@sparc.isl.net) writes:
- > The new Sportster windows modem is nice and cheap and it has flash rom
- > to update. It is plug and play and claims works ONLY with windows or
- > windows 95 communications programs. Has anyone been able to use it in
- > dos anyhow? The only reason it says no dos is the setup probably
- > requires the plug and play driver to set it up. If your BIOS is plug and
- > play or if you have the INTEL plug and play software and if that
- > software supports the modem interrupts and addresses you should be able
- > to use it in dos. I wonder if anyone has done this. It is really too
-
- No. The reason why the Winmodem REQUIRES Windows is that it
- doesn't have a controller on board. It requires the Windows .VXD be
- loaded into memory to do ANYTHING at all. Most of the "modem" is actualy
- handled by your computer CPU and memory, the card itself is just a DSP and
- DAA. This modem will NOT run in DOS in ANY way (won't even run programs
- in a DOS window).
-
- > bad they thought it not necessary to supply the needed software for dos
-
- Due to the design, DOS software would be pretty much impossible to
- write. I suppose they could have tried to make soem sort of FOSSIL
- driver, but that would likley take up a few hundred kb of conventional
- memory and would only work with programs that supported FOSSIL
- connections, and I'm not even sure if this much would work. In any case,
- when USR says the Winmodem will ONLY work in Windows, they really mean it.
-
- > setup. It is also too bad that they did not put flashrom in the regular
- > USR Sportster! Waiting for a chip to change sucks face big time IMHO.
-
- The Winmodem doesn't have FlashROM, but since all the code that
- runs the modem is stored in drivers on your hard drive, the effect is the
- same (upgrades done though software instead of chip replacement).
-
- Anthony
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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