Wayne,  When installing a telepath 56k Winmodem (Gateway), you must disable
your onboard com2.  The modem is wired to use com2 and it will not be
recognized unless the onboard port is disabled.  3Com/USR makes the
Telepath.  Maybe this will help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Aiello <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 9:19 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] installing 56K winmodem


>Hi Listreaders:
>I'm working on a system with an AMI motherboard with Cyrix/IBM 586-133  32
>megs trying to install a 3com/usr 56Kwinmodem, system had a 28.8 sportster
>before. problem is I can't get win95 to recognize it. I've re-installed
>serveral times, gone to 3com's site and downloaded the latest drivers and
>followed their instructions for removing the old (28.8) software drivers.
>At first win95 kept giving error messages saying "can't open com port
>already in use by some other device". However the last few times it didn't
>even see the modem at boot-up (56K winmodem model # 5683). I've even used
>their registry cleaner to remove any reference to the old modem. After all
>this I put the old 28.8 back in, of course win95 saw it and required no
>set-up to function. What am I missing, the only thing I thought was weird
>was that win95 could rebuild the driver base for the 28.8 even though I
>took them out.Any help would be appreciated.
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