Please!! I need to find out how to work my Pctel Micromodem on Beos5, Be.com has shut down so their worthless. The dial up networking just says connecting and eventually stops.

I'm not surprised your "modem" doesn't work under BeOS. Those things generally don't work under Linux, Solaris, BSD, DOS, or just about anything else either--except supported versions of Windows. Even then, I've seen lots of problems with them. HSP stands for Host Signal Processing. Not only do they not have an actual hardware-based UART, they also don't have a real data pump. In short, these "modems" are actually less than Winmodems! (Winmodems at least have a data pump.) These devices exist only partly as physical hardware and largely as software. A lot of people (including myself) maintain that these devices aren't even modems at all. At any rate, since they're software-based, they cannot be supported as a physical device. You have to have the special software to make it work. Beginning with R50, BeOS does include some support for a few controllerless modems, though, but I've never tried using one and wouldn't personally recommend it. If you get an actual, real, hardware-based modem, it will work--and not just with BeOS, either. It'll work with DOS, Linux, any version of Windows, and anything else that supports modems.

And it will work even better if you stick to Lucent chip sets, look for the Lucent DSP logo on box. Look for works with Linux, DOS? (& therefore BeOS most likely). For PCI boards, look for lots of chips on the board, the looking for trouble modems will only have 2 chips, a good controller DSP might have a dozen chips. USB, AMR, CMR, no no. Conexant, should work but in my experience they drop the line too often making downloads impossible, their DSP math is not up to Lucent stds. Most all externals should work.

Yikes. If you want to know about modems check out this link. If the modem says controllerless then it will not work yet in BeOS. If it says soft then it may. If it says hard then it almost has to. http://www.modem-help.co.uk/ I even found out one ISP's online help on how to connect with BeOS. From Terminal you might try to use this command. "echo ATDT 555-1212 > /dev/ports/serial1" Use a friends computer phone number using hyperterminal and your serial number.