> At 7:49 PM -0700 8/26/97, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> > Rather than messing about with that, you should probably push for
> >software upgrades for these modems. As I recall they use the PCTel
> >chipset, and the software prior to 2.17 has been unusable.
>
> Thanks for the pointer. We're trying to figure out if these are PCTel or
> USR OEMs. I think that the newer Gateway boxes come with USR based modems.
>
> If they are PCTel, where would I get the new drivers? I can't find them at
> the gateway (gw2k.com) site or at PCTel's site. (Although the PCTel site
> provides humorous reasoning about why their modems are better than DSP
> based solutions, and their bizarre justification of why they aren't going
> to support X2 OR k56flex.)
*ugh* just had a new user with a pctel chipset, it was a BTC modem...
Unfortunately, we reinstalled win95 then loaded in the 2.16 version of the
driver, from the BTC site... not until tech removed the port did it
install correctly.
This type of modem is beginning to look like more of a headache than
either the MWave or USR boondoogles...
Does anyone know of a manufacturer program where you get one of each to
test and verify and provide a detailed method of installation and use?
-- Aloha from Paradise,Sherwood