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From: Richard Bonner on 15 Dec 2009 10:12 Pen (nospam(a)nospam.net) wrote: > On 11/30/2009 12:54 PM, Richard Bonner wrote: > > Hello, All. > > > > I have a choice to buy one of two modem cards for an HP Pavilion 3438 > > laptop. I have been hunting around the Internet to see if either is Hayes > > compatible but have only found ambiguity. Has anyone any experience with > > an "XJEM3336" or "XJEM3288" modem under DOS? > > > > I am using DR-DOS 7.03 and will be using a terminal program (Pro-Comm > > Plus) on a dial-up landline. > > > Do a Google search for XJEM3336 and you will find that it > was introduced too late to have DOS drivers. There are > drivers for all sorts of Windows versions. *** Not so. The card did indeed came with an Enabler and DOS drivers. -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
From: Richard Bonner on 15 Dec 2009 10:16 Mike S. (retsuhcs(a)xinap.moc) wrote: > In article <hfute9$f4a$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: > >Mike S. wrote on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:40:36 +0000 (UTC): > >> Check your email. You could probably use the standalone PCMCIA enabler > >> program as, IIRC, the port interface never changed throughout the lifetime > >> of this product line. > > > >Just a word of warning Mike to be prepared. I know of nobody that has a > >problem with your reference to PCMCIA at all, except one. And this one > >might give you a hard time about it. But just ignore them when they slap > >your hand and tell you that it is called a PC Card and not a PCMCIA > >card, ok? Personally I thought we got over the days of witch hunts > >myself. ;-) > Bill, I have pretty thick skin after almost 20 years on Usenet. You're > right, of course, on the technicality ... but I'm willing to bet that in > the readme files the software authors probably refer to the interface as > PCMCIA themselves ... so there :-) *** Yup. One of the sentences is: "The Megahertz PCMCIA Card Setup v1.00 Control screen will appear." -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
From: Richard Bonner on 15 Dec 2009 10:35 GEO (Me(a)home.here) wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:04:41 +0000 (UTC), ak621(a)chebucto.ns.ca > > Richard asked: > > Can someone point me toward a site that might have an install disc or > > DOS services/drivers for the XJEM3336? > I have a diskette that might have what you need: > Megahertz 33.6 Ethernet Modem (1996), but I don't see any clear > indication that it would work. I guess I could try it in my old > laptop (with DOS 6.2). *** Thanks for the offer but Tony C, a local friend of mine e-mailed me the .zip file with everything I needed. (Mike S: Thanks for your effort, but no e-mail from you showed up.) > Quote: > 10. Setting Up Your XJEM3288 or CCEM3288 PC Card Using DOS > This section explains how to set up the LAN portion of your Card > without running Setup and without using Windows. > Geo *** That is the file I got from Tony. SETUP.exe is a Windoze file, but ENABLER.exe is. For those that care, here is what I went through: 1/ Created an MHTZ directory in my C:\SYSTEM directory. 2/ Copied the downloaded .zip file into it and expanded it. 3/ After a no-go with SETUP.exe, I ran ENABLER.exe with various switches, but it did not work. 4/ Read README.txt more carefully and then opened an area in memory by using an "Exclude" switch in my CONFIG.sys QEMM line from D000 through D0FF. 5/ That worked. As per my request, ENABLE gave me a COM 2, IRQ 3 port and allowed ProComm Plus to access it as a standard modem. 6/ Spent a bit of time with batch files and Aspect scripts to allow me to have "one touch" dial-up to any of my three Internet accounts. -------- I have a few bugs to work out and a few more steps to automate the process down to a minimum of input from myself, but I am currently at work using my laptop to type the followups in this thread. Woo Hoo! Thanks everyone! (-: -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
From: Barry Watzman on 15 Dec 2009 10:35 AT THE TIME THAT THIS CARD CAME OUT .... PCMCIA card probably WAS correct. The name was changed in the mid 1990's. Richard Bonner wrote: > Mike S. (retsuhcs(a)xinap.moc) wrote: > >> In article <hfute9$f4a$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, >> BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: > >>> Mike S. wrote on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:40:36 +0000 (UTC): >>>> Check your email. You could probably use the standalone PCMCIA enabler >>>> program as, IIRC, the port interface never changed throughout the lifetime >>>> of this product line. >>> Just a word of warning Mike to be prepared. I know of nobody that has a >>> problem with your reference to PCMCIA at all, except one. And this one >>> might give you a hard time about it. But just ignore them when they slap >>> your hand and tell you that it is called a PC Card and not a PCMCIA >>> card, ok? Personally I thought we got over the days of witch hunts >>> myself. ;-) > >> Bill, I have pretty thick skin after almost 20 years on Usenet. You're >> right, of course, on the technicality ... but I'm willing to bet that in >> the readme files the software authors probably refer to the interface as >> PCMCIA themselves ... so there :-) > > *** Yup. One of the sentences is: > > "The Megahertz PCMCIA Card Setup v1.00 Control > screen will appear." >
From: Richard Bonner on 16 Dec 2009 08:02
> Richard Bonner wrote: > > Mike S. (retsuhcs(a)xinap.moc) wrote: (Re: "PCMCIA" versus "PC Card)") > >> Bill, I have pretty thick skin after almost 20 years on Usenet. You're > >> right, of course, on the technicality ... but I'm willing to bet that in > >> the readme files the software authors probably refer to the interface as > >> PCMCIA themselves ... so there :-) > > > > *** Yup. One of the sentences is: > > > > "The Megahertz PCMCIA Card Setup v1.00 Control > > screen will appear." > > Barry Watzman (WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com) wrote: > AT THE TIME THAT THIS CARD CAME OUT .... PCMCIA card probably WAS correct. *** I checked; the DOS Enabler has a date of September, 1996. > The name was changed in the mid 1990's. *** What was the reason? -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/ |