Smells like vaporservice to me.... free internet access from microsoft? highly doubtful. Probably just marketing tactics again as usual.
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My AMS Tech Roadster laptop computer came with a PC-Tel ShitModem [tm] internal (not pcmcia card.)
Whenever the laptop gets slightly warm, which is usually after a half hour of use, the modem quits transfering data. Upon redial, it connects, but no data gets transfered... or if it does, it goes extremely slow--less than maybe 8 or 10 bytes a second. If I shut the laptop off and leave it off for 15 minutes or until it cools down, it will work again for a few minutes, and then It will break again. It isn't worth the irq the damn thing takes up. I bought a PCMCIA RealModem and it works great--Even if the laptop gets really hot from playing Unreal over the internet. The pcmcia card gets really really hot sometimes, but always works.
I think some people should file a class-action lawsuit against PC-Tel because their modems are just plain useless. Even occasional users who browse the web to maybe read cnn.com once in a while--It is useless for them if they just "crash" after a few minutes. The fact that they require software to suck off of the CPU isn't the worst thing about PC-Tel modems. The worst thing is that they are pieces of shit that are unreliable and do not even work when they have their 'friendly windows environment' with their drivers loaded. Pricewatch.com shows pc-tel winmodems for like 15 or 20 dollars. Still not worth it one bit. You'd be buying something that just doesn't work.
Incidentally, the damn PC-Tel modem loads a program called ptsnoop.exe which is run from one of the registry startup keys. I think it's about 30K in size. The modem won't even dial or accept any AT commands if this isn't loaded. Any takers with a disassembler? I'd be happy to give you a copy, contact ryan_antkowiak@hotmail.com:) But you have to tell me what you find out about it:)
The most reverse engineering I ever do is hex editing a binary or using a resource editor.
Anbody willing to share the secret to unlocking ES1688 sound cards with 2.2.x kernels? It worked fine under slackware 3.6 after "modprobe sound." but not after upgrading to a 2.2 kernel. Wouldn't work with slackware 4.0 either.
I heard of some people who used RH were able to get it to work with the sndconfig utility. I'll probably be switching from slackware to RH6 soon anyway, but before I do that, if I could get it to work with a 2.2 kernel in slackware, it would save me the trouble:)
The card card is an ISA, non pnp card. I've tried changing the settings (io, irq, dma) when modprobing the sb module. I've used both A) the settings windows control panel lists and B) the actual irq io and dma that are set by jumpers on the sound card [yes, that's right, my non pnp card has jumper settings that windows ignores, yet the card works under windows!]
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Smells like vaporservice to me.... free internet access from microsoft? highly doubtful. Probably just marketing tactics again as usual.
My AMS Tech Roadster laptop computer came with a PC-Tel ShitModem [tm] internal (not pcmcia card.)
:) But you have to tell me what you find out about it :)
Whenever the laptop gets slightly warm, which is usually after a half hour of use, the modem quits transfering data. Upon redial, it connects, but no data gets transfered... or if it does, it goes extremely slow--less than maybe 8 or 10 bytes a second. If I shut the laptop off and leave it off for 15 minutes or until it cools down, it will work again for a few minutes, and then It will break again. It isn't worth the irq the damn thing takes up. I bought a PCMCIA RealModem and it works great--Even if the laptop gets really hot from playing Unreal over the internet. The pcmcia card gets really really hot sometimes, but always works.
I think some people should file a class-action lawsuit against PC-Tel because their modems are just plain useless. Even occasional users who browse the web to maybe read cnn.com once in a while--It is useless for them if they just "crash" after a few minutes. The fact that they require software to suck off of the CPU isn't the worst thing about PC-Tel modems. The worst thing is that they are pieces of shit that are unreliable and do not even work when they have their 'friendly windows environment' with their drivers loaded. Pricewatch.com shows pc-tel winmodems for like 15 or 20 dollars. Still not worth it one bit. You'd be buying something that just doesn't work.
Incidentally, the damn PC-Tel modem loads a program called ptsnoop.exe which is run from one of the registry startup keys. I think it's about 30K in size. The modem won't even dial or accept any AT commands if this isn't loaded. Any takers with a disassembler? I'd be happy to give you a copy, contact ryan_antkowiak@hotmail.com
The most reverse engineering I ever do is hex editing a binary or using a resource editor.
Anbody willing to share the secret to unlocking ES1688 sound cards with 2.2.x kernels? It worked fine under slackware 3.6 after "modprobe sound." but not after upgrading to a 2.2 kernel. Wouldn't work with slackware 4.0 either.
:)
I heard of some people who used RH were able to get it to work with the sndconfig utility. I'll probably be switching from slackware to RH6 soon anyway, but before I do that, if I could get it to work with a 2.2 kernel in slackware, it would save me the trouble
The card card is an ISA, non pnp card. I've tried changing the settings (io, irq, dma) when modprobing the sb module. I've used both A) the settings windows control panel lists and B) the actual irq io and dma that are set by jumpers on the sound card [yes, that's right, my non pnp card has jumper settings that windows ignores, yet the card works under windows!]
... and to think that breaking cameras because of awful looks has been a *joke* all of these years--it actually happens!