Re: SupraExpress Modem problems
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, David Karlin wrote:
> > > > Out of curiousity, did you properly set up the modem with isapnptools, and
> > > > then use setserial to set the irq, port, and everything?
> > >
> > > Nope. I disabled PNP and set everything with the jumpers as described
> > > in appendix A of the manual. This seems to have worked fine. Is there
> > > an advantange to using isapnptools over disabling PNP?
> >
> > Probably not. i was just curious, since in part of your previous post
> > (that you cut) you had indicated that it didn't work until you disabled
> > PnP. i was wondering if you had set things up correctly and it _still_
> > didn't work, or if you just took the easy way like i did ;)
>
> I'm not sure that isapnptools is a more "proper" way of setting up a
> PNP card than disabling PNP and setting options with jumpers.
i didn't say it was more "proper". What's wrong with the easy way when it
works just as well or better than the hard? ;)
> According to another poster, disabling PNP is preferred.
i'd have to agree, just because ISA PnP doesn't work too well a lot of the
time and it's difficult to configure. i've seen a sig somewhere to the
effect that the problem with Plug-and-Play is that it only works 50% of
the time--specifically, 'Plug' almost always succeeds.
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