Lucent Soft Modem XP Drivers

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Does anyone know if there are working drivers for a 'Lucent Technologies Soft Modem AMR'. Its in a machine which has been upgraded from 98 to XP and Windows has detected the modem as the above but it's not actually working.

When querying the modem from the advanced options it returns the error 'opening the modem device failed with error 000005aa' and complains about the port being unvaliable. There are no conflicts according to device manager. I've found many different drivers through google which I've tried installing with no success, when I've tried to manually install the driver it only gives you the option of COM1 or COM2 and not COM3 which is what the default driver puts it on.

The motherboard its on is a MSI MS-6178, its one of these AMR (Audio Modem Riser) devices.. anyone have any experience with it or is it going to be a case of 'buy a decent modem!' :p

Thanks
 
Anyone have any ideas on to how to resolve this? I've been trying different drivers all afternoon, and although Window's show the device as working without any conflicts in device manager it is unable to dial out or query the modem, as above.

Thanks
 
riddlermarc said:
Do you actually need to use the modem then? I remember the Lucent softmodems from back in the dial-up days and they always had a driver floppy.. mind you, you should try somewhere like www.modem-drivers.com (http://www.modem-drivers.com/companies/609.htm for Lucent) and see if anything there helps?
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Thanks for the reply. The person that the computer belongs to does use the modem still for their internet access. I've been through the site you mentioned this afternoon and tried several different drivers off it (specially anyones which make referece to AMR). I've had to modify a few of the inf files to get them to install but so far they all result with the problem in my orignal post.

The issue is its an old Tiny machine which orignally shipped with Windows 98, and as its been upgraded to XP there is no driver discs. I seem to remember when XP first came out there were issues with older software modems, I have a feeling its going to be a case of get a new modem or go back to 98. :(
 
I'd just get a new modem. The AMR ones seems to be more difficult to find drivers for imo. The PCI ones are usually just Intel/Ambient etc which is a lot easier.
 
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