hutchinl@agnes.stolaf.edu (05/02/89)
Can anyone tell me if I can use an internal modem on my A2500, and if so what kinds are best? I would appreciate any experiences anyone has had with these, also how much are they. Email responses are fine, thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lance Hutchinson \\====// phone: (507) 663-2044 St Olaf College \\==// Northfield, MN. 55057 \\// hutchinl@thor.acc.stolaf.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (05/02/89)
In article <1972@thor.acc.stolaf.edu> hutchinl@agnes.stolaf.edu () writes: >Can anyone tell me if I can use an internal modem on my A2500, and if so >what kinds are best? I would appreciate any experiences anyone has had >with these, also how much are they. Email responses are fine, thanks. I've been testing the SupraModem/zi internal 2400 baud modem for the A2x00, and it seems to work well. The only problems I found were that sometimes it crashed when dropping DTR and that the driver did not properly respond to the "send break" command.. I reported these problems to Supra, so they might be already fixed by now. Check with Supra if there is a more recent driver for the modem. You can have up to 5 of these modems in the A2x00 and they are accessed as modem0.device with different units, or as modemx.device with x=0,1,2,... While only A-Talk III works right off the box with multi-serial devices like these, Supra includes a program that will "patch" other programs (it looks for the string "serial.device" in the binary and substitutes "modem0.device" to it). I believe the price is the same as the external one (about $170). A program is provided that will "simulate" the modem lights. It can be run on workbench or can be attached to other screens (like A-Talk III custom screen). In the latter case make sure that you exit the lights simulation program before the comm program, otherwise fireworks will be in order (this is documented BTW). As a Hayes-compatible modem, the SupraModem does its job as all the other clones. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=