[Coco] Totaly off-topic:ibm thinkpad modem/serial ports

[Joel Ewy]

mike delyea wrote:
> You should completely uninstall all the mwave drivers and software and
> reinstall it.  This is the best way to correct problems with the mwave,
> which is a modem/soundcard combo.
>
I agree with Mike.  Just to add a little perspective:  The mwave was a
DSP (Digital Signal Processor) chip that IBM put into a bunch of
computers back then.  It was used for sound, modem, and even decoding
JPEGs.  It's a pretty neat little deal -- sort of like the later
soft-modems, except it didn't use the CPU's resources, and it was a more
general purpose DSP.  I think there may have been a software development
kit available.  So it was a much more open, less proprietary system than
the junky "win" (lose) modems that came later.  I have a bunch of IBM
'486 systems that have these mwave boards.

What this all means is that it isn't a generic modem or sound card
though, so you definitely need to get the proper driver and make sure it
is installed properly, as Mike says.  Good luck with it.

JCE

> On 5/22/07, Leon Howell <puritan_2076 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I feel really awfull about posting an ibm related message here,
>> especialy
>> since I'm the only one who complained about all that windows vista
>> junk.But I
>> also know there are nice friendly people here with windows & ibm
>> experience. I
>> posted to 10 other newsgroups, but I have no idea what to expect there.
>>
>> I got am ibm thinkpad 755CE and tried to get on the internet with it.
>> Internet
>> explorer said the modem was being used by another dial up program, but
>> there
>> isn't one. The windows '95 diagnostics can't open the MWave modem port,
>> both
>> programs say the serial port is not responding, and the sound player
>> says
>> the
>> sound board is not installed (the modem and sound are apparently the
>> same
>> board)
>>
>> The diagnostic program in rom says the serial ports and something called
>> DSP
>> are fine.
>>
>> What are the correct serrings for the serial ports in Easy Setup?
>>
>>
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