On 2 Aug 00, at 12:04, Tony Jones wrote:

> We have HP Omnibook laptops running NT4 (and Win2K)
> with Xircom Realport 10/100 Ethernet Modems.

  For whatever it's worth:  We have had an unacceptable number of
these cards develop permanent hardware errors on the modem side.

  [For those who remember UARTs, some software reports the problem as
an apparent ineffectiveness of the DLAB (Divisor Latch Access Bit),
making it impossible to configure the port speed.]

David G

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