Hi Alan,

[Thus spake Alan Marks unto Any kind person!:]

 AM> I have recently bought from Swann Modems an Internal 28800 BPS modem,
 AM> having been assured that only the brand name was different from the
 AM> morer expensive kind!  There were no installation instructions - after
 AM> all, what else do you do but plug it in? I configured it as COM2, and
 AM> changed the port reference in TFW and in Trumpetwsk.ini, as well as
 AM> the baud rate.  I accessed Eudora satisfactorily, but seemed to drop
 AM> out when I tried Netscape.  It also won't disconnect and has hung the
 AM> whole machine several times.  Is there something important that I am
 AM> missing? After using the modem for a couple of days, I realise the

Can't really help you with the above. The only thing I can suggest is to
make sure that you don't have any IRQ conflicts and use hardware flow
control.

 AM> absence of lights showing the status, and a nasty squawky little
 AM> speaker, almost inaudible at that, are a real drawback.  If I stick
 AM> with this device, is there any software to provide lights on the
 AM> screen? Some help would be appreciated.

You can use a comms program that provides modem lights such as TX, RX
etc on your screen. Examples of such programs include Procomm Plus for
Windows and WinComm Pro.

Sunny

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