How to tell if hardware modem is hardware :)

[TunaBoo]

I am not really sure how the driver interactions with hardware modems work. If you take a hardware modem, and install winmodem drivers for it (because the hardware drivers are messed), will the modem behave as a winmodem, hardwaremodem, or somewhere in between? Any test I can run to see how they are acting? They seem fairly responsive on the net, but I got a hardware modem so it is as good as can be for my paps.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

boot up dos 6.22 or go to dos mode (not dos prompt),
run telix (remember to choose the correct com port),
if you can connect to a bbs, that's a hardware modem.

 

[Bozo Galora]

in other words, if it can run without windows, its not a winmodem (heh heh)

 

[GregMal]

Yeah, that's the real test. Also, you can visually look at the modem.
Hardware modems are larger with many many chips on them.
Winmodems are usually small with hardly any chips on them.
Greg

 

[AndyHui]

I would be surprised if you could actually load softmodem drivers for a hardware modem.

The hardware device IDs would not match, so Windows would probably say something about not being able to find drivers for that device.

 

[RSMemphis]

Hmm, actually, Windows has a unified modem driver that works for everything.

33.6K, 56K, winmodem, hardware modem.

But you are right, when you use specific drivers, it will complain

 

[TunaBoo]

It IS a hardware modem. Both because it works in linux and it has a buttload of chips.


However, when I loaded the USR drivers that came with it in win2k, it was bunk. It would not dial out in tone, only pulse.

I loaded random USR drivers for it that came with win2k. Now it works. I was just wondering if I lost any of the hardware functionally, or if the modem automatically takes the tasks off the CPU and does it itself.

 

[GregMal]

You've already determined that's it's a hardware modem.
Hardware modems won't put any strain on the CPU.
If the generic Win2000 drivers work and if you're getting
connects of 45K+, be happy...........
Greg