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Table Of Contents Contacting Actiontec Customer Support ............................................ 3 Product Registration ............................................................................. 4 Safety Information ................................................................................. 4 Product Features ................................................................................... 6 Package Contents .........................................................................
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Contacting Actiontec Customer Support Actiontec Electronics prides itself on making high-quality, durable, high-perfor- mance products. If you should need assistance, the Actiontec Technical Support Department is available from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM Pacific Coast Time, Monday through Friday to provide professional support. New drivers and firmware are released as need arises to insure maximum compat- ibility and operation of your new 56K Internal PCI Modem. Find out about these and other new Action
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Product Registration The installation CD that came with your modem contains a file called registra- tion. This file will take you to the Actiontec web site: http://www.actiontec.com/registration Please fill in the required fields so that you can get prompt support and notifica- tion of periodic product upgrades. Safety Information This modem card is for use only in Personal Computers that have installation instructions detailing user installation of adapter cards. DANGER: Electrical current fro
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• Do not connect or disconnect any cables or perform installation, maintenance, or reconfiguration of this product during an electrical storm. DANGER: When using your telephone equipment basic safety precautions should always be fol- lowed to reduce the risk of fire, electrical shock, and injury to persons, including the following: • Never install telephone jacks in wet locations unless the jack is specifically designed for wet locations. • Never touch uninsulated telephone wires or terminals un
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Product Features The Actiontec 56K Internal PCI Modem contained in this package has the follow- ing features. l Conforms to the ITU-T V.90 specification with auto-negotiation of V.90, V.34, V.32bis, V.32, V.23, V.22bis, V.22, V.21, Bell 212A, and Bell 103 protocols. l Supports Group 3: class 1 and 2 fax protocols. l V.42bis and MNP 5 data compression. MNP2 - MNP4, V.42, and LAPM error correction. l Completely controller-based PCI modem for the widest range of supported operating systems: DOS Wi
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Installing the Modem System Preparation Before you begin the installation of your 56K Internal PCI Modem, all currently installed modems should be removed. This will help prevent hardware conflicts between the new modem and any previously installed modems. For Windows 95/98/NT Before you physically remove the old modem, go to Start-Settings-Control Panel and double-click the Modems icon. This will bring-up the Modems Properties screen. Find your old modem listed in the General window of Modems P
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Step 4 Remove the screw securing the expansion slot cover behind one of the computer’s available PCI expansion slots. Lift the expansion slot cover out as shown below. See the caution statement on page 6. Figure 1: Removing the Backplate Step 5 Firmly, but gently, insert the modem into the available PCI expansion slot. Ensure that the card is seated properly before securing it with the screw removed in Step 4, as shown in the following diagram. Figure 2: Installing the Modem 8
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Step 6 Put the chassis cover back on the computer. Step 7 Be sure that all power switches are in the OFF position, then reconnect the power cables to the computer and its peripherals. Step 8 Connect the telephone line cable to the Line (Telco) jack on the back of the modem. Step 9 Turn on the computer and proceed to the following sections to configure your modem to the operating system you are using. 9
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Device Driver Installation and Configuration Configuring Windows 95 Step 1 After you have installed the modem into your machine, turn on the power and allow the system to boot normally. Step 2 After Windows 95 loads, it will detect new hardware. The modem will be identified as a “PCI Card”. Select the option “Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer” and then click the OK button. Step 3 Windows will prompt you to insert the driver disk. Insert the installation CD-ROM and click OK. Step
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Step 3 At the next screen, Windows will ask if you want to use the driver it found. Click the Finish button. Windows will complete the installation of the drivers for the modem. Step 4 To verify that the modem has been properly installed, go to Start-Settings -Control Panel and double-click the Modems icon. At the Modems Properties screen, click the Diagnostics tab. Highlight the COM Port icon next to the modem and then click the More Info button. The “ATI” responses should be listed. This shows
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Configuring Windows NT 4.0 Step 1 After you have installed the modem into your machine, turn on the power and allow the system to boot normally. Step 2 Insert the installation CD_ROM. Now go to Start-Run. Type in “d:drivers\pciven\winnt\setupnt.exe” and click OK. Step 3 After the program has finished unpacking the driver and setting it up, a screen like the one shown below will be displayed. Step 4 Remove the installation CD-ROM from the CD-ROM drive. Click Finish to end the program and restart.
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Step 7 The COM port will be the next one higher than those currently installed. (In the above example, COM1 is already installed, so the modem is found on COM2.) In most cases Windows NT will detect the modem as a “Standard Modem”. Click the Change button. Step 8 Insert the installation diskette or CD-ROM. Click the Have Disk button. Step 9 A new window will appear with another list of modems, one of which will be yours. (Yours will probably be the only modem on the list.) Select it and click
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Configuring DOS and Windows 3.1X Note: Not all communications programs are supported under DOS due to PCI IRQ requirements. Unless your application can support IRQ 9 or above and can address nonstandard COM Port addresses, it may not be able to support this modem. Step 1 After you have installed the modem into your machine, turn on the power and allow the system to boot normally. Step 2 After the system has loaded, insert the installation CD-ROM. At the prompt, type “D:PMDMCFG.EXE” and press ent
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To configure the modem’s country setting, open a terminal program such as Hyper Terminal. At the command prompt, type: at. The re- sponse should be “OK”. Now type one of the following commands de- pending on the country where the modem will be operated. Canada: at%T19,0,1c Japan: at%T19,0,10 United States: at%T19,0,19 If the command was properly entered, the response will be “OK”. A re- sponse of “ERROR” will indicate an incorrect entry. After the command has been ent
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Configuring OS/2 WARP Note: If your computer system uses Phoenix BIOS, you must disable PnP OS support for the modem to be recognized in OS/2. See your computer users manual for information on accessing and changing your system BIOS settings. Step 1 After you have installed the modem into your machine, turn on the power and as OS/2 boots, look for the OS/2 logo in the upper left corner of the screen. When you see this logo, press the Alt and the F1 key at the same time to bring up the Startup M
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Step 9 You will need to modify your config.sys file. Find the entry for COM.SYS (It should be just after the KEYBOARD.DCP statement and before the VIOTBL.DCP statement. If it is not, arrange the order of the statements so that this requirement is satisfied.) If there is no COM.SYS or VCOM.SYS statement, add these to your config.sys file (see the example for the proper syntax). Be sure these statements are between the KEYBOARD.DCP and VIOTBL.DCP entries. Modify the COM.SYS statement using the va
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Step 4 Under the Device Name column, try to locate all of the “Unknown Devices”. For each unknown device you find, move the cursor to each row and press F6 for information. Look for the item “Board ID”. You will be looking for a board with ID “0x11c10480”. Step 5 Once you find the board, press to back out to the previous screen. Now use the tab key to move the cursor to the “Device Name” field for that board. Press the F2 key to bring up the list of choices. Step 6 In the Device Name Cho
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# ./MAKEDEV ttySx Where x is the COM port. This will create the appropriate files. Note: There is no MAKEDEV in OpenLinux. The commands will be as follows (as root): # mknod /dev/ttyS4 c 4 68 # mknod /dev/cua4 c 5 68 Note: Versions of Linux with the 2.2x kernel or newer versions of Linux, the / dev/cua4 device is obsolete. Step 2 Many programs use the /dev/modem symbolic link to refer to the modem. To create this link, type: # ln -s /dev/ttyS4 /dev/modem Typing # chmod 666 /dev/ttySx # chmod 66
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Step 4 Write down the first input/output range and IRQ. In this case, the I/O address is 0x6400 and the IRQ is 11. Type # setserial /dev/modem uart 16550A port 0x6400 irq 11 (The IRQ and port may vary depending on the results from step 3.) Step 5 Try out the settings in a program such as minicom. Step 6 If the settings work, then add the line above in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. This way, the modem will be set properly each time Linux is booted. Step 7 To set Linux to configure the modem on boo
