Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Packard Bell PB2400Plus
Keywords: modem trouble
Message-ID: <317@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 22:51:00 GMT
References: <297@esosun.UUCP> <2716@sultra.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
Lines: 33

In article <2716@sultra.UUCP>, dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
> In article <297@esosun.UUCP>, keith@esosun.UUCP (Keith Pilotti) writes:
> > 
> > experiencing some glitches.  For example, it will connect at 2400 baud
> > one time, 1200 baud the next.  Of course, once it connects at 1200
> > baud it changes it's serial interface speed which then no longer talks
> > to the terminal port!  I wonder if it is this particular modem, or a
> > design flaw in the product.
> 
> I have one as well!  It does the same thing.  I posted a request for help, and
> got a reply from someone who basically said all you have to do is set a bit in
> register S34, which will stop that.  Why don't you RTFM before asking stupid
> questions.  My reply, was of course, that the PB2400 DOES NOT HAVE a register
> 34!!!  Why doesn't HE RTFM.

Just cause it ain't in the manual don't make it so! just try a ATS34?
an see what happens. Looky there, it seems there is a register 34
after all. Anybody out there wan't to let us in on the secret of how
to use it? 

Still doesn't excuse the lousy manual though! Worst thing is that the
manual for the PB2400PLUS is much better than the one for it's
predecessor the 2400IS/EM (which was actually a better modem than the
PB2400PLUS).  Then again I once had to read a manual (for a robot
actuator) that had been translated from Japanese to German and then to
English.... 


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