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Name: nicknat0925 Date: December 25, 2002 at 12:20:43 Pacific OS: 9.1 CPU/Ram: 132/80
Comment:
Hi, I have a US Robotics Sportstar faxmodem with x2 it plugs into the serial port in a pc. I have found a pc to mac serial adaptor and tried to get AOL on the mac to use the modem but it will not work. Are there any drivers or extensions that will make this modem work.(it works on the pc)
Name: cache22 Date: December 30, 2002 at 13:15:06 Pacific
Reply:
Have you made sure your Modem control panel is set to use one of the US Robotics modem scripts, and the correct serial port? If that doesn't work, you could try one of the more generic scripts, like the Supra 56k.
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Response Number 2
Name: nicknat0925 Date: December 31, 2002 at 13:54:45 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks i did that and now when i dial it stops at step 3 and says connected to at 33.6k. It dials up and logs in on the pc
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