using a modem with dos

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Name: ilyas
Date: November 3, 2005 at 08:12:05 Pacific
Subject: using a modem with dos
OS: msdos 7.10
CPU/Ram: 80486 128mb

Comment:

arachne cannot autodetect my modem.
does this necessarily mean that it is a winmodem?
how do i decide if it is a winmodem or not?
is there ANY method of using winmodems for internet access under stand alone dos?

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Response Number 1

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: November 3, 2005 at 08:23:10 Pacific
Subject: using a modem with dos

Reply: (edit)

One obvious approach is to do a web search on the make and model.

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2

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Response Number 2

Name: plainandsimple
Date: November 3, 2005 at 09:48:23 Pacific
Subject: using a modem with dos

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Modem Doctor - DOS
http://www.modemdoctor.com/
Comms Port Config
http://www.napasoftware.com/prod_comcfg.html

This should give some pointers as to whether or not Arachne can use the Modem, the following is from the HELP file:
Why doesn't Arachne dial with my modem ?
Our dialer setup screen is not able to deal with some extreme, non-standard modem configurations. (for example, with the modem on COM4 and no COM3 device, you may have to pretend it is on COM2 and manually select the correct base address and irq for COM4; you can also try to enter your parameters to ARACHNE.CFG manually)
Arachne Labs is not responsible for any included or recommended PPP dialer: we only wrote user friendly HTML setup screens for DOSPPPD. This DOS port of Linux pppd seems to work on many typical DOS based PCs. Plug your external modem into COM2 (mouse on COM1) or internal modem to COM3, irq 4 (mouse on COM2), and everything will be all right.
Problems arise with Windows-specific internal devices - Winmodems. They require specific drivers to be used, and if such driver is not available for DOS, you are lost. When buying an internal modem, always make sure that it will be visible to your BIOS/DOS as a third serial port - otherwise you won't be able to use it with operating systems like Linux or DOS.

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Response Number 3

Name: Bicephale (by bicephale)
Date: November 3, 2005 at 10:03:19 Pacific
Subject: using a modem with dos

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Hi,
Il> Is there ANY method of using winmodems for
Il> internet access under stand alone dos?
Yes, there is but i wasn't really expecting to see
any mention of it here and the fact is it won't do
for you anyway (because of insuficient resources).

Salutations,
Michel Samson
a/s Bicéphale

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Response Number 4

Name: plainandsimple
Date: November 3, 2005 at 12:15:16 Pacific
Subject: using a modem with dos

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What To Do with a WinModem ??
http://users.ohiohills.com/fmacall/winmodht.htm

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Response Number 5

Name: plainandsimple
Date: November 3, 2005 at 12:31:10 Pacific
Subject: using a modem with dos

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ilyas: from your postings it may be easier to achieve your aims by installing Win95 OSR2.5 or later, and use Windos as you appear to have Windows compatible hardware.

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Response Number 6

Name: ilyas
Date: November 4, 2005 at 08:11:55 Pacific
Subject: using a modem with dos

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thankx for the responses

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Response Number 7

Name: Bicephale (by bicephale)
Date: November 5, 2005 at 02:40:51 Pacific
Subject: using a modem with dos

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Hi,
Il> Is there ANY method of using winmodems for
Il> internet access under stand alone dos?
Bi> ...i wasn't really expecting to see any
Bi> mention of it here...
Shure enough, VMWare WorkStation wasn't mentioned;
nor was Virtual PC. Should using a Win DOS box be
tolerable, i might as well expect to see TurboComm
or COM/IP resurface but that won't happen i guess!

Salutations,
Michel Samson
a/s Bicéphale

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