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Pete Bown wrote:
> 
> Brian {Hamilton Kelly} wrote in message <895935979snz@dsl.co.uk>...
> >In article <895794411.6884.0.nnrp-07.c1eddda8@news.demon.co.uk>
> >
> >Unless I've missed it, I haven't noticed anyone suggest that this modem
> >might be a dreaded WinModem type of device: if so, it certainly won't
> >work (until it's been "spoken to" by Windoze [in your case WinOS/2]
> >first).  Is this a possibility?
> >
> >--
> >Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
> bhk@dsl.co.uk
> >        "The fundamental design flaws [of the products of the
> Micros^WSirius
> >        Cybernetics Corporation]  are completely hidden by their
> superficial
> >        design flaws."  SLATFATF 1983 --- wasn't Douglas Adams
> prescient?:-)
> >
> 
> Brian,
> 
> It looks as if this is the case, although Windows 95 and 3.11 seem to
> configure the modem in a different way to each other.  If I reboot after
> configuring the modem in Windows 3.11, the BIOS and OS/2 can see
> COM port 3 on IRQ 5. Windows 95 doesn't do that.
> 
> Maybe that's the only way it will work - I'll have to boot up into Windows
> 3.11 then reboot into OS/2.  I don't use Win/OS2 although I might have to!
> It annoying because I would like to delete the partition containing Windows
> 3.11 to make room for OS/2 Warp 4 (I'm currently running version 3).
> 
> I'm not going to get Warp 4 until I can get the modem to work.
> I suppose the other alternative is to change the modem, but it's only six
> months old!
> 
> Pete

Did you amend the COM.SYS line in your OS2 CONFIG.SYS ??

It sould read something like 

DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\COM.SYS (3,3e8,5)

but only you know the correct values...


Regards,
Tim