You are correct. Sorry for forgetting to mention that in my previous
message. For V.90/K56flex/V.34 data or fax operation, Lucent generic
drivers will work fine on the Compaq hardware.
> For this reason, I've
> shied away from having customers use the LT code on these. I've always
> just had them use the following compaq softpaq upgrade:
>
> ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp9001-9500/sp9017.exe
>
> You can get the instructions for performing the upgrade at:
>
> ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp9001-9500/sp9017.txt
Thanks for the URLs, Craig.
> This will upgrade the modem to version 1.6.15.1--quite a bit higher than
> the 1.3.12 than your modem is currently running. I'm not sure what
> Lucent revision this corresponds with, but it was the latest one that I
> could find on compaq's website. I think this one was put out in
> December of 1998, so it should be fairly recent. It has worked great on
> our customers who have tried it.
1.6.15 (essentially the same as 1.6.15.1) was built on 6/18/98, and
corresponds roughly to LT 5.12. So although it took a while to get through
qualification at Lucent and Compaq, the code is fairly old.
The nice thing about these host-controller modems is that you can try a
variety of drivers until you find the one that works best on your line.
Although we try to make sure that any improvements for some lines don't
cause any new problems on others, there are some tricky tradeoffs.
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