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On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 Nick.Rushizky@mail.mei.com wrote: > The latest verson of the Mwave software lets you choose what country you are >in, via one of the icons in the Mwave Thinkpad group that it creates. When you >choose a country it tells you that 'You should berify that the country type of > the Data Access Arrangement (DAA) attached to your computer matches the > selected country' and that you should restart any telephony programs. > the 'country select' has been coming with mwave from the beginnning as far as i know, at least i got it with my tp755ce. >One of my more adventurous users having just switched from a Mac to a Thinkpad >(the good side of the Force wins again :-) ) and from Groupwise to Notes tried > to use his 760 in Germany. He's very familiar with getting the phone line to > work, but after making the Mwave switch to Germany, and getting the above > message, he thought, 'Ok, this DAA business means do I have the right kind of > connection to their phone lines' and proceeded. However, Notes didn't detect > the modem at all. > there is a daa kit. in the u.s. the daa is built in - you just plug your phone rj-11 (or whatever) into the side of the tp. if you are overseas, your thinkpad comes without this - instead you get a little kit - a dojiggy that fits where the in-built mwave would otherwise fit, with a circular - not rj-11 - female plug where the rj-11 would be on the side of the tp, a short cable that plugs into this at one end and the 'daa kit' at the other. daa kit at the other end has an rj-11 female for your phone line. in theory i believe the kit does two things a) provides better protection against sending 240 volts - as most of the world is - up the phone line to the linesperson hanging off the telephone pole and b) reduces the likelihood of interference with phone system by a modem. [some argue the regulations merely generate revenue for state run telephone companies.] in any case, there are usually heavy fines attached to being caught using an unapproved modem in another country - in australia the fine is $10,000, though i don't know what the jail term is. i suspect that the mwave software itself does not allow you to select a non-u.s. country unless you have a daa kit attached - successfully select - but that would be a pure guess. ... because the country choice should take care of all the modem init commands for each country without problem. the above assumes your user did not have a daa kit, but just plugged the phone via an adapter into the u.s. inbuilt mwave socket. the biggest non-software problem with mwave is bad physical connections, so it could be that your user simply did not have his phone connections snug enough. every time i conect my daa to my tp, i first do the 'mwave quick test' for modem. if you hear the dial tone, almost always you are set to go. other- wise you can spend a good deal of time wondering why you are not getting through. daa kits are not that expensive, they are small and light, and probably the best solution. if you get the one apporoved for germany, it could probably be used anywhere because germany i believe has the highest standards in this area. may just need some phone adapters for different places. now, if i could just get the telnet that came with wn95 to stop hanging when i connect in via the mwave i'd be set ... suggestions welcome. [it hangs if you accidentally hit the control key by itself - not hard to do given its location below the shift key.] regards, al Alden S Klovdahl / alden.klovdahl@anu.edu.au / fax: +61 62 49 05 25 Sociology Arts / Australian National University / Canberra ACT Australia 0200