From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_pele.WURLDLINK.NET)
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 04:09:22 EDT
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Aaron W. Brown wrote:
> Vince said:
>
> >I'm running Win ME Beta 3 Build 2509 on my 770Z 9549-8AU........
>
> > If I turned the TP Modem off, the 3Com modem works fine so I
> >think it may be a problem with the 3Com card hunting for resources while
> >it worked fine in Win98SE since the 3Com drivers are over a year old.
>
> I think your right, Vince. The 3com I/O port probe causes a serial
> port hang of the TP modem. This supports TP FAQ 5.2 - Internal
> Thinkpad modems should be disabled; waiting for that inevitable day
> you forget/break your pc card dongle or smash your xjack;)
Hmmm, this only seems to happen with WinME and not Win98 1st Ed
and 2nd Ed though. Ofcourse, with WinME, I had to update the TP Modem
drivers to 2.60 from the previous 2.51 so I don't really know. Actually,
3Com came out with a XJack version of my card except it only has one XJack
so you can't use both the modem and the NIC at the same time which is bad.
http://buydirect.3com.com/iom_dcms/b2c/catalog/detail.html?SKU=3CXFEM656C
> Can you turn off the 3com probe feature by unchecking "Use automatic
> settings" in Device Man?
I think I can but haven't really tried it. Also, is each modem on
the TP supposed to have it's own Wave Device for the sound support since I
think with WinME when I uninstalled the TP Modem drivers and deleted the
Modem from 3Com card, it seems Win will only readd the ThinkPad Wave
Device after reinstalling the TP drivers but when I readded the 3Com
drivers, it didn't add anything before like it used to.
Cheers,
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