Re: tlug: Re: ISDN problems

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > I don't see '8390x' anywhere on any of my 3 internal sportster 33.6k
> > modems here.  Where would I find this?  they all say 'Copyright 1995'
> > on the back, though.  they also all have stickers saying '550 6345 A'.
> 
> I was referring to external Sportsters[1] -- I should have been more
> explicit.
> 
> The 8390x was the first five digits in the serial number.  In USR
> products, that corresponded to the model number.

where is the serial number?  On the internals at least, there is no 8390x
*anywhere* on the card.

> 
> > Their tech support is kind of lame, yes.  But the modems are self
> > documenting.
> 
> The documentation won't do a bit of good if the modem just plain doesn't
> work right.  Which Sportsters were prone to do.
> 

mine work.  Mine are 1995-issue, i believe.

> > Mine don't seem to have soldered-in firmware.. at least they all have at
> > least one removable chip on them.
> 
> You've probably got the internal version of the 83903, which featured
> new-and-improved firmware.

really.  Even though mine are 1995/early 96 issue?

> 
> -- Chris
> 
> [1] I dislike internal modems, too.  Can't put an ISA internal modem in a
>     sparc, nor hang it off of a portmaster.

USR makes a rackmount that you can put the internals in, and hook it up to
a sparc.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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