I´ve got a problem installing an old PCMCIA Modem on an old
Laptop running XPpro. With Win98 the same modem on the same
laptop runs just fine.
The modem has not been recognized when installing XP.
It´s a no-name V.90 faxmodem labeled "K56 FLEX". I guess the
(modem|modemchip) is by Lucent. The driver-info states the
producer would be "PC-CARD".


Waht does(n´t) happen:
- The modem is not found at all by XP when scanning for HW or
modems. Yet the readme says W2K fould find it automatically
and recognize it as "Standard PCMCIA Card Modem".

- Upon insertion of the modem the system-log brings up an error
with source=pcmcia and eventnr=10 and tells it´s missing an
description for eventnr 10. (rough translation; it´s a
german version of XP)

So my guess is the problem is not with the modem, but with the
management of the PCMCIA-slots. I suppose something like "cardservices"
is missing.
How can I enable such a thing ? Win98 has a file "cardsrv.exe", XP
only has "SCardSrv.exe" (Smartcardservice - which is probably not what
I want).

Any clues anyone ?

Thanks in advance,

Martin

More info:

- The cardcontroller is an "O2Micro OZ6832/6833"

- Win98 has an entry like "PCMCIA-Kartendienste" (=Cardservices) in
addition to the
two of "O2Micro OZ6832/6833" when looking it up in the Devicemanager.

- The driver contains a file "mdmen.exe". From the readme:

"5. FAX MODEM ENABLER

The enabler, MDMEN.EXE is used to initialize the modem when you are not
using Card Services. You can use the Enabler as DOS command or DOS
driver.
It means that you can load the enabler from the DOS prompt or put it
into the
AUTOEXEC.BAT or put it into the CONFIG.SYS to load it everytime you
start your
computer.

MDMEN [/COM=m] [/IRQ=nn] [/SLT=n]

where
COM=m Specify the COM port number (m=1 -- 3). Default is 2.
IRQ=nn Specify the interrupt request number in decimal.
Default is
4 for COM1, 3 for COM2, 4 for COM3, 3 for COM4.
SLT=n Specify the slot number the Fax/Modem card plugged.
Default is auto-detection."

When executing "mdmen /COM=2 /IRQ=11" (com and irq values taken form
Win98)
it answers:

"PCMCIA Client Driver v1.14

Card/Socket Service is not found.
Please install PCMCIA enviroment before use the enabler."