Re: Plug and Play 28.8 USR Sportster?

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From: Steven J. Charles
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 10:44

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sdo@msn.com (Steve Owen) wrote:

>In article <4jgljl$9d1@mrnews.mro.dec.com>, sdo@msn.com sayeth unto thee...
>>
>>I may soon make my first venture into Plug and Pray... I've got a Gateway 
>>466DX2 (JX30G motherboard) with the MicroFirmware Plug and Play bios upgrade 
>>and W95.
>>
>>My question is this:  Should I bother with the Plug and Play version of the 
>USR 
>>Sportster 28.8, or should I go with the "manual setup" variety?  Anyone tried 
>>such a combo (PnP on JX30 with MicroFirmware bios)?
>>
>>I have no problems with messing with jumpers/IRQ/IO/etc, but I wanted to make 
>>sure this would (should) work before I came home with it from the computer 
>>show...

>Ok... to answer my own question (yes, I'm talking to myself... and waiting for 
>the men in the nice white coats)...

I have the EXACT same motherboard AND the Microfirmware PnP BIOS
upgrade that you have!!  I tried the PnP OPTION for the Sportster (The
PnP Version can EITHER be PnP (Take off all the Jumpers) OR you can
set it up the old fashion way with setting the Jumpers and IRQ.  Well
of course I tried PnP...DID NOT WORK!!! The modem and the mouse (I had
my mouse on COM1...I don't the ps/2 mouse port on my JX-30G).  I
worked on it for s long time...but the PnP did work (At one point the
modem worked but I had to keep the mouse moving for the data to pass
through the modem...weird!!  Anyway..I ran the Com POrt program that
came with the sportster, it said set you modem on COM3 IRQ5...I put
the jumpers on and I was back in business!!  No Problems since...LOVE
the modem!!  Good luck

Steven J. Charles
scharles@megalink.net
http://www.megalink.net/~scharles/

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From: scharles@megalink.net (Steven J. Charles)
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Subject: Re: Plug and Play 28.8 USR Sportster?
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 10:44:51 GMT
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