On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, David Karlin wrote: > > > > Out of curiousity, did you properly set up the modem with isapnptools, > > > > and > > > > then use setserial to set the irq, port, and everything? > > > > > > Nope. I disabled PNP and set everything with the jumpers as described > > > in appendix A of the manual. This seems to have worked fine. Is there > > > an advantange to using isapnptools over disabling PNP? > > > > Probably not. i was just curious, since in part of your previous post > > (that you cut) you had indicated that it didn't work until you disabled > > PnP. i was wondering if you had set things up correctly and it _still_ > > didn't work, or if you just took the easy way like i did ;) > > I'm not sure that isapnptools is a more "proper" way of setting up a > PNP card than disabling PNP and setting options with jumpers.
i didn't say it was more "proper". What's wrong with the easy way when it works just as well or better than the hard? ;) > According to another poster, disabling PNP is preferred. i'd have to agree, just because ISA PnP doesn't work too well a lot of the time and it's difficult to configure. i've seen a sig somewhere to the effect that the problem with Plug-and-Play is that it only works 50% of the time--specifically, 'Plug' almost always succeeds.
