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Old October 26th 05, 10:27 PM
jt3
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Default Any Tapi/Dun/Modem Experts Question

Sorry about the vagueness, but as I said, it's been a while.

As well as I can recall, which is not very well, you end up with two
different things installed if you try the directions/std install. I tried
many different permutations of install, and could easily be mixing them up
now. Uninstalling the modem doesn't uninstall the enumerator, I believe;
you must uninstall that explicitly in Add/Remove. I believe that it was
important to get all of the stuff uninstalled to get it right finally.

I have an old notebook I used at the time and may have some notes on
it--will see if I can find it and get back. That is, if you want it. I'm
no professional, and don't claim to know what I'm doing. It's mostly
empirical, just as for virtually everyone else here, and if you can't handle
that, then I'll be of no use to you.

Joe
"nonewbie" wrote in message
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Thanks, not sure I know (or you do) what you mean.

If I install the latest driver package that IS the enumerator, it
automatically installs the modem on the OS. So, how can you install the
enumerator without installing the modem?? In fact, I did install the
enumbetor/driver package prior to letting windows try it's install as I
recall.

Also nobody has said anything about what exactly the bios settings
should be on this install. Some say to disable the irqs for the modem;
which I'm guessing is "reserved" under my bios. I think I may have tried
it both ways. The problem appears to be a windows screw up in the
registry and windows is confused again. There have been numerous posts
on this problem from different individuals (google it) and no one has
explained how this install process works, what the interaction with tapi
is and what to do about it.

Also does anyone know what the effect of removing unimdm.tsk from the
control panel will do on this system? Is it possible to reinstall it
without reinstalling the whole OS if I try removing it?

Maybe MS wants me to call in any pay for tech support so they don't give
the real answers to this problem :-(.


"jt3" wrote in
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I hesitate to say much when it's so fuzzy in my memory--these days 2
years blanks me out pretty badly--but my daughter's Dell had the same
problem (same modem) and as I recall after thrashing with it for the
better part of a month, I finally decided that the problem seems to
occur as a result of the modem being detected and an install attempted
before the Conexant enumerator is installed.

When they get installed in the wrong order, it does just what you
described.

I *think* I uninstalled the mess and tried again (one of many
retries), not allowing the modem to install initially, and then when
the enumerator gets installed (I forget what it's called--HCF Modem or
some such) you can let it install the modem.

It worked well enough that when I had to reinstall it the next year
she was back from college, that I was able to do it with only a little
fumbling around. She isn't here, and no longer has the machine
anyway, or I'd check it out.

Hope this is of some use.




Joe
"nonewbie" wrote in message
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cannot get dun to work with aztech mdp3880-w(u) modem.

installed latest drivers, install went fine. "more info" reported
info from the modem.

When I try to dialout using dun i get : "error 633- modem is not
installed or configured for dialup, double click on the modems icon
in control panel"

When I do the above, it tries to reinstall the modem drivers,even
though they have already been installed.

Tried on of MS's solutions and rebuilt telephon.ini, still no go.
Also did their registry fix for telephon.ini

tried uninstalling and reinstalling drivers and modem still no
problem. Modem now assigned to com3 IRQ 10

in my Dell dimension bios, there is a section for all the irqs where
u set it to either available or reserved, but I was told that this is
only for non-plug and pray modems and I got a message from windows
saying this is plug and pray modem. IRQ is currently marked available
in bios.