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- From: forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis )
- Subject: Digicom Scout+ plug and play??!
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:52:30 GMT
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- Assuming you use the Qmodem Lite software included with the Digicom Scout+
- modem (& using the Scout+ prewritten configuration), are you supposed to be
- able to pretty much be able to install the board and go? I haven't had any
- luck. After checking the modem to make sure it's set for com port 2, IRQ 3,
- (switches 1&3 on), I placed it in the slot where my 2400 modem had
- cheerfully plugged away for years. When I start QModem, it doesn't seem to
- be intializing the modem, though it prints a string claiming it does. There
- isn't an "&F" printed (or anything else), nor an OK in response, and the
- modem won't accept any commands. The modem is on a Zeos 386SX 20.
-
- Things I've tried without success: doublechecking the dip switches on the
- modem. Checking the telephone line. Changing my computer's startup
- configuration to enable and disable com port 2. Changing ports on both the
- modem and software to ports 3 and 4, relevent IRQ's.
-
- Tried running a shareware program called "Modem Doctor", which reported
- being unable to access the command processor. It was unable to do either a
- hardware or software reset of the modem, and suggested that the memory was
- bad.
-
- The manual isn't helpful; it assumes you can at least run the self tests,
- which I can't. It suggests that the computer's DTE may not be clueing the
- DTR properly; I tried putting the command "&D0" in the initialization string
- without success.
-
- The above has happened with _two_ modems; took the first back, second
- behaving identically. The salesman at Software etc noted that someone else
- had recently returned a Scout with the same problem, and thought that
- Digicom might just be having quality control problems. Another salesman
- thought it odd that two modems would act similarly.
-
- Any ideas? Thanks,
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- Eric Forbis forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu
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