Re: (PMOD) Emachines/Etowers

Bullit (support@pdqlink.com)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:54:54 -0500

Daniel
I understand the false UART to be caused by the use of WinModems. To the
best of my knowledge, WinModems do not use a serial port, therefore no UART
is even being used, so it doesn't really matter what the UART says.

Hope this helps.

Michael

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Conrad Rockenhaus <conradr@waco.calpha.com>
> To: Me, Myself, &I <hondo@acheron.com>
> Cc: <portmaster-modems@livingston.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 8:13 AM
> Subject: Re: (PMOD) Emachines/Etowers
>
>
> > The people who bought emachines and signed up for my service had a
simple
> > solution, they either returned the machines (all but one of them did
this)
> > or they signed up with America Online.....
> >
> > 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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