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- From: lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Medvezhonok)
- Subject: getting my Gateway telepath to work and misc.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.011035.5629@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 01:10:35 EDT
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- I got a Gateway Telepath 14.4 modem configured as COM3, and it works under
- native DOS and Linux, but when booting OS/2 it gives the following message:
- COM3 install failed, interrupt level not available.
- or something to that effect. The result is any comm program trying to use
- that port under OS/2 hangs, except PM Terminal which maximizes, freezes for 2
- minutes and then determines that the modem is not responding. I figured that it
- just didn't like the interrupt I was using, so I switched it to the IRQ 5
- suggested in the manual (rather than the standard IRQ 4 I was using.) This gave
- the same results. I am lost now and without a means of downloading files to my
- home, as PM terminal has the only working kermit Xfer I know of, and the
- university still holds onto 7-bit dinosaur dialups, so other protocols are out.
- What I would like to know here, is if anyone else has had this problem, and if
- so, how can it be solved?
- Secondly, am I the only person who finds the online "documentation" to be
- completely and utterly useless? It is about as useful to my understanding of
- the workings of the OS as a severe blow to the head would be. Does anyone
- know of a cheap reference to OS/2 that is more understandable? Everything
- I've learned about OS/2 2.0 so far has come from the net or the FAQ.
- Finally a suggestion to IBM, besides /dev/null-ing the online stuff:
- Include some applets or an applet for changing things in the config.sys
- like the mouse port, the location and size of the swapfile, vga drivers,
- etc. It is much easier to do something like change the port of a mouse
- in the mouse settings window than to hunt through a few pages of config.sys
- for something that might have to do with the thing you want to change. It also
- would eliminate the worry that the system might hang because you didn't know
- the correct syntax for the change you made. I am confused by little things
- like these that try to idiot-proof the system, while other areas, like error
- messages are undocumented and cryptic. Is IBM trying to make OS/2 an idiot-
- proof OS like MacOS or are they trying to make a high-end programmer-friendly
- OS like UNIX. It seems to me, in the documentation and configuration, they
- have combined the worst traits of each. Maybe they'll smooth this stuff out
- in the CSD :>
-
- -Louis Ruppert
- lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu
- lruppert@sunrise.bitnet
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- --
- I am now accepting donations of Iris Crimsons, if anyone has one they have
- gotten sick of :>
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