Besides their modems, the machine is just generally crappy.
That's what happens when you buy a cheap-o machine from a Overseas company
that's still making a profit from selling them so low (dead giveaway about
the quality, huh?)
Conrad
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Me, Myself, &I wrote:
> On their website they list an init string for their modems of
> AT&F&C1&D2&K3W1
>
> If you want to check out their "tech support" which consists of a series
> of FAQ's that are geared specificially towards users and not people who
> are supporting the product, the modem section is
> http://www.e4me.com/techsupport/faq.html#modem
>
> Interestingly enough, in this FAQ they claim that "When the UART speed of
> 8250 is reported, this is erroneous." Aparently they use a virtual UART,
> so we now have a modem that not only farms off the processing of signals,
> it also doesn't even have a real 16550 UART.
>
> I have dealt with 5 users of emachines, and to the best of my knowledge we
> have not lost any of them, however it was a while ago and I can't remember
> exactly what worked. I do believe that this was part of it however
>
> N0S37=13 for K56Flex or N0S37=12 for V.34
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, TICON v90 wrote:
>
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck with these things. I have had 4 people sign-up
> > and cancel in the last 2 weeks. I cannot get information from these
> > people to do tech support with lucent. They refuse even to look at the
> > driver versions!! All I know is that they are a PCTel chipset and have
> > had little success. Commas, +ms=v34, +ms=12, +ms=11 don't have any real
> > effect. I'm scared that I will be seeing more soon.. You think anyone
> > with a brain would *NOT* buy a computer under $700. Sorry, I'm going off,
> > but its hard to help people when you can't get you hands on the equipment
> > to test it!
> >
> > Thanks-
> >
> > Daniel W. Nagel
>
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