I have a SmartLink USB modem which is also id/ed as: ID 0483.7554 Thomson Microelectronics 56K SoftModem ... by scanModem. Using the default tools in Puppy Precise retro 5.7.1, the modem probe works, but dialing does not produce dialtone or dialing sounds and does not connect. Besides the scanmodem ...

device=mtmcdai.sys /D:mtmide01 The CR-2801TE optical drive is recognized by the BIOS during POST correctly and the bios can be configured to (attempt to) boot from the CDROM, but it always fails to boot I'm all better here, but I'm not sure why. After I fiddled with some custom boot floppies derive...

I ask long-winded questions. My target goal is to be able to boot a Puppy 4.2.1 CD on this particular machine. It has a funky optical drive Mitsumi CR-2801TE that needs its own drivers instead of the popular generics. I have the driver file: Mtmcdai.sys, also Mtmcdai.386 I have to use those drivers ...

I have a system whose bios can be configured to boot from cdrom or zip or floppy or hdd, but the puppy4 cd fails on that optical drive and I get a booting from cd - failure message. That same puppy cd boots on several other computers without problems. My target is to boot from the zip drive. I creat...