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  • 3Com Sportster 33.6 not pluging and Praying?

    Hello
    Just got my old 33.6 external 3Com Sportster modem out again (too use as a backup modem), installed it on the serial port Com1, but it is not plug and playing, have also tried com2, and i have bought a new Belkin Null modem cable, still not seeing it.

    any ideas

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  • #2
    It won't plug and play. It's an external. You just have to tell Windows there's a modem on Com1, and what kind it is.

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    • #3
      Tried telling windows what it is on Com1 & Com2 still no go

      just get a windows error saying that it cant find the modem or check the interupt on the port, (Modem diag screen)tried playing with interupts still no go

      AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
      A-Trend Mobo 6240 V2
      Custom Heatsink/Globalwinfan setup
      128MB/PC133/PC100 Combo
      I-Will Slocket2
      PIII Coppermine 500e@690 FSB 138
      Windows98SE
      Matrox G400 32 D/H (Latest drivers)
      Soundblaster 1024 Live @3.0 drivers
      8.4 West Dig (ATA 33)
      6.4 Fugitsu (ATA 66)
      MS Intell/Explorer USB
      Pioneer 6/32x DVD
      Memorex 48X CD
      Altec lansing Sub + 2 satelite speakers

      Golden Orb (www.plycon.com) being installed soon


      Old Joes's Going for IT!!!

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      • #4
        "and i have bought a new Belkin Null modem cable,"

        Null modemcables are for conecting two computers, not a modem!!

        Gurm, modems are PNP!
        My old noname 33.6 did PNP detect and all other modems i have ever come in contact with does to! (besides 9.600 bps modems)

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        • #5
          Technoid is right about the PnP of the modems and the Null-modem cable.

          You need a modemcable (usually plugs into the big serial port at the back), and then assign either COM1 (COM3) or COM2 (COM4) to that port through BIOS and Windows.

          The last modem I installed in that way was a 14.4k at work.. And boy does that one make a noise when it calls in...

          Jord.
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          • #6
            A NULL modem cable is for NO modem. Null = zero. You use it connect the com port of one machine directly to the com port of another machine. It wil never work hooking up to a regular modem, or any other device. There is a crossover of wires in a null modem cable. the pins of one end do not match the pins of the other end. Whatever you think that other cable it, it isn't a null modem cable.
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            • #7
              I dont agree

              Have a identical modem in work using a null modem cable, serial connection into PC, 9 pinserial 25 pin into Modem, all works ok????
              A-Trend Mobo 6240 V2
              Custom Heatsink/Globalwinfan setup
              128MB/PC133/PC100 Combo
              I-Will Slocket2
              PIII Coppermine 500e@690 FSB 138
              Windows98SE
              Matrox G400 32 D/H (Latest drivers)
              Soundblaster 1024 Live @3.0 drivers
              8.4 West Dig (ATA 33)
              6.4 Fugitsu (ATA 66)
              MS Intell/Explorer USB
              Pioneer 6/32x DVD
              Memorex 48X CD
              Altec lansing Sub + 2 satelite speakers

              Golden Orb (www.plycon.com) being installed soon


              Old Joes's Going for IT!!!

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              • #8
                I agree with Kruzin and Jorden. Modems are connected through straight wired cables and they can be PnP. Null modem cables have at least the request-to-send and clear-to-send as well as the transmit data and receive data wires crossed.
                If the modem does not work with a straight wired cable you might want to try using a serial mouse just to check if the com ports work on the machine.
                It would be very weird if this modem uses a different cable. If it does, the modem port is wired non-standard and requires you to use an original cable although I haven't seen this so far. 25 to 9 pin conversion does not mean that the wiring crosses RX/TX and RTS/CTS but connects from 25 pin wiring to the according 9 pin connector.

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                • #9
                  You get a truly warm feeling when two Moderators back you upp!

                  Thanks
                  Jorden
                  Kruzin


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                  If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

                  Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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