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Re: TP755Cx and Megahertz modem
megahertz sucks. the pcmcia lan adaptor kills the dsp audio. yuck !
what crapola ! plug and play, sure.
On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Randal Whittle wrote:
> > > I have a brand new Megahertz 28.8 modem that I can't get to work in my
> > > TP755CE under Warp. I've disabled the MWave modem, and when I reboot,
> > > the TP knows there's a card in the slot. But it doesn't respond to any
> > > comm program - the message says the com2 port is not active. I tried
> > > the card in a TP750CS that had a working modem (not a Megahertz,
> > > though) and got the same message about the com2 port. Is there
> > > anything else I need to do before deciding the card itself is bad?
> >
> > With our 755CE, I found that in addition to disabling the MWAVE, we also had
> > reconfigure the ports with the utilities DSP and SERIAL found in the ThinkPad
> > Setup program group.
>
> What I don't understand is this: With a software upgrade, the
> MWAVE can do 28.8K--so why would you want to even use the Megahertz modem?
>
> I can see it if you wanted 28.8K and your internal only did 14.4...
>
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