Re: rockwell chipset modem

Jacob Suter (jsuter@intrastar.net)
Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:15:07 -0500

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> From: Helio Coelho Jr. <helio@compuland.com.br>
> To: alexm <alexm@agetech.net>
> Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Re: rockwell chipset modem
> Date: Wednesday, September 11, 1996 3:02 PM
>
> At 15:17 11/09/96 -0400, you wrote:
> >I have a few customer that have cheapy 14.4 k modems with Rockwells
in
> >them. I can not get them to connect to my Couriers or sportster if
my
> >life depended on it. All I get after connection and garbage. I aslo
> >notice that when I connect, I dont get the usual three distinct
tones
> >that I get with other modems, i only get 2. I remeber someone having
> >trouble with Rockwell chipset modems. How can I get them to work?
>
> If you are using trumpet, set the baudrate to 14400 and disable
> hardware handshake and van-jacobson compression. That worked for my
customers.
> But I didn't manage to put it to work with Win95 Dial-Up and
Microsoft's
> Internet Kit.

If they are RPI type modems (ugh!) go find a copy of WinRPI for Win95..
Its easy as pie to install (read the docs)... boom they're screaming
along like they should.