Re: OS/2 modem driver

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From: John Poltorak (jpolt_at_bradnet.legend.co.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 04:28:30 EST


On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:00:16AM +0000, sehh of H.I.C. & D.B.S. wrote:
> The OS/2 modem driver for the thinkpad is a rather pathetic excuse of
> a driver.
>
> If you have a large harddrive (with most of it free >2gb) then it will not
> install, gives some error that it can't copy some file. The solution is to
> fill your harddrive to go bellow 2gigs and then install the driver.
>
> The driver also doesn't support 56K, but goes up to 33.6 only. I bet
> IBM doesn't really care to upgrade it...

I believe that the driver was written for IBM by some third party who
probably don't have much in the way of OS/2 programming skills.

In this day and age of open source software the company may release
the source if approached by some top OS/2 programmer :-)...

If it was released as shareware I'd definitely register a copy.

However, since it's IBM responsibility to support their products
it wouldn't do any harm to complain about the lack of functionality
as far as the modem driver for OS/2 is concerned. The trouble is
knowing where to complain effectively.

> þ H.I.C. & D.B.S. þ OS/2 Warp þ Hellas þ
> þ ServerConfig þ ConfigEdit þ OS/2 UK UG þ

--
John


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