>I just got off the phone with a senior tech person at USR. I called
>them due to my continued troubles with the newer USR 33.6 Sportsters
>and Livingston PM2E30s. The tech told me that is was the Livingston
>code, which tries to force the incoming modem and the one on the port
>to negotiate at the vfc protocol and speed. The newer 33.6 modems do
>not have vfc capabilities and they have been working with Livingston
>for approx. 4 months on getting the ComOS of the Livingston boxes
>changed to have the older 28.8's and the 33.6 codes in them.
>
>This guy may have been full of it, but he sure seemed convincing.
Yes, this is a load of BS. The Livingston 2e's are just term servers.
They do not force speed and protocol issues unless you simply don't
give the right init string to the modem in the first place. You don't
HAVE to use any of the modem strings in the built in modem tables.
USR tends to tack the "Sportster" label on anything in their consumer
modem and ISDN TA lines. Several chipsets are used. So it is not
surprising when you use the string from a supposedly generic "USR
Sportster" entry and it doesn't work. Just work out the init string
that these new Sportsters want, and give it to them. This is not
a ComOS issue, but it is typical of USR to pass the buck.