What modems easily work on Alphas?
Several basic types of modems work without any effort above a normal NT installation, as long as you follow some simple guidelines: • External modems are platform and OS-independant — Just change the cables. • Watch out when buying ISA modems as they fall into 3 classes: • Physically open up the box to see if the card has jumpers. If it doesn’t, then it’s strictly a “Plug & Pray” model and won’t work with NT or an Alpha. • The modem may also be of older design where it has the “classic” COM1-4 & IRQ jumper settings. • Lastly, it may be a “hybrid” job with a single row of 14 jumper pairs, where if the first 10 jumper pairs are “jumped” the modem initializes into plug & play mode; or individual jumper pairs can be picked for manually selecting the COM & IRQ. • Internal modems can accept standard settings utilizing port defaults for COM3 or COM4 so as not to conflict with existing COM ports. • 56K modems (both x2 and K-Flex) will work in external models, but some may not be recognized in
