Thanks Douglas for pointing out what I was overlooking.
I reconfigured its jumpers and I got it to work.

Michael Eisenstadt

Douglas Simmons wrote:
>
> You may get your setup to work if you reserve in the BIOS
>  the IRQ that you have set on your ISA modem.  I'm assuming
>  that your Sportster is IRQ and Port configurable.  I've
>  not used the Asus but most of the BIOS's will allow you to
>  reserve an IRQ for legacy (ISA) devices and not have it
>  available for P-N-P assignment.  I'd copy down all your
>  IRQ usage before re-booting though since Windows may
>  shuffle your IRQ'a and make something else not work.
>
> Doug
>
> At 3/12/2002 10:26 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:
>
> my computer's peripherals are in the following slots:
>
> ISA     ISA      PCI     PCI    PCI     PCI      AGP
>
> new     16bit  S/video  sound  modem   Adaptec  Matrox
> modem   SCSI    card    card            SCSI     video
>
> What I'm trying to do is to free up a PCI slot for a
>  Firewire card.
>
> As I have one ISA slot free, I am trying to install a
>  USRobotics non-Win
> Sportster and then remove the PCI modem.
>
> Win 98SE installed the USRobotics automatically, but serial
>  mouse froze.
> Removing the ISA modem freed up the serial mouse which is
>  using
> COM 2, ITR 3. The PCI modem is using Interrupt 9.
>
> This is an ASUS P2B board.
>
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