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- From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: demon.tech.modems,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Another Askey modem (IBM MWAVE this time)
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 11:26:17 GMT
- Organization: Dragonhill Systems Ltd
- Message-ID: <829308377snz@dsl.co.uk>
- References: <1996Mar22.172103.1@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk>
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- Readers of these newsgroups may recall that I hit a snag about three
- weeks ago with a "controllerless" modem, manufactured by the Askey Corp
- of Taiwan, and unusable under anything other than Windoze.
-
- Well the suppliers, having been unable to get supplies of their external
- BABT-approved V.34 modem, have now sent me another internal modem. This
- time it's a 16-bit card, and as well as providing voice/fax/modem
- facilities, also incorporates a Soundblaster emulation and secondary IDE
- for a CD-ROM, as well as a games port. Talk about ASAD-WBAWT!
-
- Anyway, it's been supplied with a CD-ROM of software made by IBM: not
- having a CD-ROM player at home, I haven't yet found whether this includes
- OS/2 drivers (which is what I really want). The CD is identified as
- 96-G412151 Rev.1 AHE and copyright 1992. The instruction manual for the
- modem (the publication number ASK9511A suggests to me that it too is a
- product of the Askey Corporation) describes installation under both DOS
- and Windows (but not OS/2) and refers to installation diskettes (which
- aren't here, but hopefully covered on the CD).
-
- Also supplied are three diskettes from Trio Information Systems,
- providing the fax support for Windoze. There's no mention therein of use
- under OS/2, but I see that Trio have a support address in Sweden so I'm
- e-mailing them a copy of this posting as well.
-
- Could anyone who has information on this modem (which is identified on
- the box as a "Sound Card + Fax Modem S1428VH", and on the card itself as
- "P/N:85803109 S1428VH-M UK") please either post or e-mail me. I'm
- especially interested in OS/2 drivers and support, but any and all
- information, and especially tales of woe, would be appreciated.
-
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- Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
- "A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy"
- -- Samuel Johnson
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