Re: jumper settings for USRobotics SPortster

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:40:12 -0400, "don" <don@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I bought a USRobotics SPortster 5600 V.90 ISA model 0484 off of Ebay and I'm
>trying to set the jumpers so it will work with my old 486 dx33 running win
>3.1 - can someone please expain how to do this - I keep switching them but
>the only success I'm having is that sometimes my mouse stops working but my
>modem is never reconized.
>
The 2 other posters hit the key points. Here's the complete drill:

If the motherboard has 2 onboard com ports, then go into the bios
setup and disable the port you want to put the modem on. That is
normally com2. If you have a serial device, like a mouse, make sure
that is on the com port that isn't disabled, e.g., com1.

Set the jumpers on the modem to com2, IRQ3.

Open the config dialogs in your communications software, like your
terminal program and internet dialer, and set them to use com2. Set
the port speed to 115.2.

Gary E
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