Ed Durrant  said:

>inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:
>> I've had an Intel combo NIC/Modem PCCard on my old ThinkPad for about a
>> year and turned the TP on 2 or 3 times a month during that time.
>> 
>> Recently I found my network failed.  More recently the modem quit, then
>> started running oddly.
>> 
>> Oddly?  It connects to my ISP at the usual speed.  After that it is
>> sending constant short TXs and getting rare spikes of RXs.  Mozilla
>> gives me time out messages on all URLs.
>> 
>> Hardware?  Time to find another setup?  I'm thinking of moving from the
>> 770E to a T30.  That would have much more speed, integrated comm, less
>> weight, etc., and still not necessarily cost an arm and a leg.  (I don't
>> spend anything on arms and legs nowadays. ;-) )
>> 
>> (Now, everywhere I ask about this I get people telling me to upgrade
>> even further, in spite of the fact that this is merely a backup machine
>> for when my desktop goes down.  Suggestions?)
>> 
>> Jim L, via eCS 1.15 version of OS/2

>Hi Jim,

>   Doesn't the 770E have a built in modem ??

Some do.  This one doesn't.  Otherwise I wouldn't have bought a combo
card.

>   Those combined modem / ethernet PCMCIA cards were always difficult
>to  get working.

Tell me about it.  It took me a couple months to work through it.  But
it WAS working great for 6 months or so.

>It may be that you have installed some software that
>now  conflicts (IRQ ??)

No new installations.

>or you've changed some CMOS setting without realising.

I think you are talking about BIOS settings?  How would you do that by
accident?

And how might that give the odd combination of RX & TX on the modem?


Jim L, via eCS 1.15 version of OS/2
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