eddie,

the modem should have a floppy/cd with it with the driver (if not talk to
the vendor), w95 does not have drivers for ALL hardware, particularly newer
stuff.

i had a HSP modem (for example) which came with its own driver.

once you find the disk w/ the driver on it, go to the 'unknown' device shown
which you believe is the modem card.  tell it you want to update the driver.
there will be a tab where you tell it you have you OWN disk.  insert it,
follow the directions, should work.

on the matter of the pci, same stuff.  the motherboard should come w/ it.
on my motherboard however when i loaded it, things got flakey.  i had to rip
out osr2 and reinstall cuz everytime i tried to install over the old one it
found the dad blamed pci bus software and installed it again.

i 'believe' the pci bridge software is only for bus-mastering and there is
some debate on whether that really improves hard drive performance (see
tom's hardware page).  so i decided to leave it out and go with the unknown
device.  no problems.

jim


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rode <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 1998 9:41 PM
Subject: Fw: 1. Modem not detecting correctly. 2. PCI Bridge adapter not
detecting correctly


>
>3.  The modem was detected, but no driver found.  I searched the Windows
95B
>CD, and even attempted to set it up as COM 2, generic modem at 28.8K.  But
>no connection could be made to the modem.
>
>The modem is detected when the computer is powered up;  Award BIOS shows
the
>following:
>
>Card 1:56000 D F TAM FDSP DSVD WinModem
>
>Win 95b detects the same card but treats it as an "unknown device" and
won't
>detect it as a modem.
>If anyone knows where I can find an installation program with drivers for
>this make of modem, or how to install it as a modem within the Win95 driver
>list , that would be great!
>
>4.  Another device, known as the PCI bridge, is also detected as an unknown
>device.  Originally, the USB (Universal Serial Port) support was also
>detected as an unkown device, but I located the installation program for it
>on the Win95B CD,  But I don't know where to locate the driver for this
"PCI
>Bridge" whatever it is.  If anyone knows how to successfully install this,
>or what the heck it is, that would be great!!
>
>Thanks.
>
>Eddie Apostol
>Multimedia Applications Designer, Instructor
>mail to:  [log in to unmask]
>
>
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