US Robotics

Modem

WARNING!

3com bought U.S. Robotics, so that we'll see probably the end of the stupid modems epoch.


Sportster 14400 Plug&Play
Courier ASL v.32terbo
Courier v.34
Sportster SI


Special Notes for Windows 95 users


Sportster 14400 Plug&Play

AT&FL1S7=120S10=30S13=1S19=5 OK AT&A3&B1&H1&K3&M5 OK

This modem hangs when aborting during telephone numbere dialing.


Courier v.32terbo ASL

AT&FX4&A3&B1&H1&K3&M5&P0&R2&Y2 OK ATS7=90S10=120S13=1S19=15S32=6 OK


Courier v.34+

AT&FX4&A3&B1&H1&K3&M5&P0&Y2 OK ATS7=90S10=120S13=1S19=15S32=6S54=0S56=0 OK


S13 - bit-mapped options. Current value - reset on DTR loss.
S19 - inactivity timer (minutes).
S32 - DATA/VOICE button action (Courier modems only).
&A - result codes (extra).
&B - DTE speed (fixed).
&H - flow control (hardware).
&K - data compression (selective - MNP5 is disabled).
&M - connection mode (ARQ - asynchronous reliable).


Sportster SI

AT&FPW2&Q0&R0 OK AT%E2S7=120S10=30S38=2+H11 OK
P - pulse dialing. Default - tone.
W - response form.
&Q - sync/async mode.
&R - RTS operation mode.
+H - RPI mode.11 - WinRPI.

These modems are based on the Rockwell RC144DPG chipset with no hardware error correction protocols which used so called RPI - Rockwell Protocol Interface to emulate them on the PC's CPU. This bastard comes from Rockwell itself RPI modems and must die.


Special notes for Windows 95 users

The Windows 95 TM drivers for the Courier modem have the wrong command &L2 which causes the modem to respond ERROR during the initialization process. To avoid this, you must download the fresh .inf file version from the U.S. Robotics FTP site or edit the file mdmusrcr.inf at the Inf subdirectory of your Windows 95 directory, find and remove &L2 command and save this file back. After you do either of above, you need then to reinstall your modem.

You should note also that old Windows 95 information files doesn't contain any records related to the 31200 and 33600 speeds both for Sportster and Courier modems. To connect properly at them you should also either download the new version of the information file or edit the existent to add the desired speeds manually.


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