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On Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:36:42 -0400, Richard M. Poniarski wrote: > I had a lot of trouble installing my new modem on my TP365XD. Actually it >is the second time I am trying. I first tried with a Practical Peripherals >56K PCMCIA card, and now with a Hayes Accura 56K one. On the first I >couldn't get it to install at all. With the Hayes it does install, but I >have a couple of problems I hope that the group can me with. > > 1) In order to install the modem I had to disable the serial port on COM2. >The modem now uses that port. This is strange since my old modem (a >Cardinal 28800 PCMCIA) used COM3. If I need that serial port back what do I >do? Is it possible to switch the modem to COM3 like the other one? > > 2) In the Device Manager of Windows95 I have *2* entries for the modem. >This may have to do with the fact that I had to abort the initial detection >of the modem as it wanted to install the "Standard PCMCIA Modem" rather >than the Hayes. What do I do about this; keep both or try to get rid of >one? > >Richard M. Poniarski >rponiarski@earthlink.net >'95 BMW 318ti Sport >The 318ti Site >http://home.earthlink.net/~rponiarski/ >"If you have to ask..." > > > One of the nice things about both OS/2 and Linux is multiple COM ports and non-standard resources, like how I have my Home & Away modem on COM3, irq 11. If you can do something like this in Win95, you might solve your problems with disabling other COM ports. Also, if you use an external mouse, or the Trackpoint (about everyone), the PS/2 mouse port uses IRQ 12. Usually it goes like this: COM1 - IRQ 4 COM2 - IRQ 3 COM3 - IRQ 5 N COM4 - IRQ 7 N LPT1 - 7 LPT2 - 5 FLOPPY DRIVE - IRQ 6 HARD DRIVE0 - IRQ 14 HARD DRIVE1 - IRQ 15 MATH COPROCESSOR - IRQ 13 PS/2 MOUSE - IRQ 12 IRQ 2 "turns into" IRQ 9 And I think 1 and 8 are used for something else too. I put an N where you can negotiate the IRQs. If you have any other questions, email me. Later, Paul