That Zoom Modem with the Lucent Chip, is a WinModem, and therefore does not have
the Hardware Comport. One of the drawbacks of using a softmodem. I am not sure
about BeOS, but I would think it is the same as for Linux. A Winmodem requires
using MS Windows to make use of the software Comport. You can double check the
BeOS Website, but you will probably need to replace the modem with one that is
not Winmodem based. You can usually have good luck with most external modems.

Mary Wolden wrote:

> From: Gary Gifford Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 9:18 PM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Com4 doesn't exist
>
> I have a Aopen AX6B motherboard, an internal Zoom modem model
> 2919L(Lucentchip) and an Abit Merlin Intel i740 video card. I installed Beos
> as a second OS to Win98 and in trying to get the modem to work I started
> fooling around with the bios settings for PnP, etc. Even with defaults
> reloaded I can't see Com4 in the system-device manager-ports listing
> although modem properties-resouces shows the modem on Com 4 and it works in
> W98.  The modem won't work if I jumper it to non PnP Com4 which would be
> nice so it would work with Beos.  Com3 shows in the device manager but I get
> conflicts when I try to use it with the modem.

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