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I used to use a system with a PC-Chips 810LMR motherboard which came with a CNR modem. This worked fantastically reliably with Windows Me, even though Win Me was absolutely rubbish.
I have just built a new PC with Win XP Pro. I have installed a modem that I had that had never been used. It was in a box without a manufacturers name. But one of the chips on the board said Motorola on it so I installed the drivers for the SM56 that I had on a CD.. Does anyone know how to check what the modem actually is for definite?
Anyway, the modem works and seems to work well but then disconnects for no reason. If this is a problem with the line or my extension cable then why was I so successful with my old PC?
Unfortunately I have no CNR connector on my new Asus motherboard.
I tried installing the newest driver on the Motorola site and my modem no longer worked.
The driver before that one on the Motorola site works but still has this disconnecting problem.
I notice that it says on the Motorola site that the driver is a speakerphone modem, whereas the one that I had on CD was for a fax modem, which I think is more likely the case. Do you think this would matter to the operation of the modem?
Is the SM56 just really sensitive to noise on the telephone line or something?
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http://www.motorola.com/softmodem/driver.htm
It could be that your line is not optimal, have it tested by your telephone Cy
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I have not downloaded any updates because I imagined that they would be very large files.
Why? Do you know of a patch that relates to modems?
I had already used Hyperterminal. It does indeed say that it is an SM56. I wasn't confident that that was not just telling me the information obtained from the driver I had installed. How do I know that that is not the case?
Is it actually possible to install the wrong driver and still have the driver work?
By installing a different driver.
Is there a generic driver in XP that will install?
Standard modem or suchlike?
Before broadband, I had a USR pcmcia modem...it would
work (not with all facilities) well enough with a generic driver,
at least to connect and d/l the correct manufacturer's version.
I suppose that's not quite the *wrong* driver but neither
is it the right one.
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Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.