Re: Jaguar/Panther question
Re: Jaguar/Panther question
- Subject: Re: Jaguar/Panther question
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:32:01 EDT
I misspoke. The old chipsets in the old modems were not Lucent. They were
Rockwell.
Gary
In a message dated 8/21/2003 11:18:44 AM, MacGEKampel writes:
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First, yes these are analog modems.
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Second, yes USB modems work.
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Third, the modems in those G3's were Lucent chipsets made by Boca Research
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(Global Village) for Apple as OEM. I know because I worked for Boca at the
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time.
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Those same Lucent chipset PC Card modems won't work reliably past Mac OS
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9.0.4. Newer Lucent chipsets sometimes caused a kernel panic in OS X. I'm
trying
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to avoid this with new PC cards using Conexant.
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Does Apple provide specific minimum settings for PCMCIA cards to work with
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their OS'. How would I find this information? Is there an open source page
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their site or should I contact Apple direct?
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Gary E. Kampel
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In a message dated 8/20/03 6:04:58 PM, email@hidden writes:
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On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 08:04 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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> "If you have a contact at Apple, could you ask them whether Jaguar
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> generic PC Card modem drivers that support Conexant PCMCIA Cards with
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> Type II or II PC Card or CardBus slots.
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> What OS' do they support?"
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Firstly, are these PCMCIA analog modems?
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I've not tried those but I have had excellent success with USB modems
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without any special drivers other than the modem scripts.
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It's useful to note that the modems used in the PowerBook G3 Series, G3
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iMac, Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White), and Power Macintosh G4 (PCI
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and AGP) were all Conexant modems.
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No-one but authorised Apple employees can talk about Panther tho.
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M
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