Hi Roy!
Tuesday January 20 1998, Roy J. Tellason babbled to Gabor Z. Papp:
 GZP>> Thank you All for the answers, but the echo method don't
 GZP>> works for me. I see, modem receive the command, (blinking
 GZP>> led) but do nothing.
 -> This sounds like perhaps there's a mismatch of baud rate between what the
 -> port is set at and what the modem is looking to see.  Something to look 
at,
 -> anyway...
I've installed a few modems that did something like that.   The light would 
flash but I couldn't ever use the modem.  What I found was that not all the 
DB-25 ribbon cables you see will work the same on every system board.  I went 
through 4 different ones for this system before I found one that would work. 
Now, I'll always give something the benefit of the doubt that I may have had 
4 bad connectors, but I find that to be unlikely seeing how they were all 
new.  I also (when doing support for Gateway) ran across an article relating 
to this on the web.  I can't remember if it was Intel, but it's whoever 
makes/made the Thor and Tiger-Eye system boards.  They said plain as day on 
the page that not all pinouts for a DB-25 connector were the same.
Just something to consider in the future....
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