eTEC USB ADSL Modem Annoyances.

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2003-08-23 07:11pm

Hey people, I'm having a pretty annoying problem here and I was wondering if someone could give me a hand...

My ADSL modem recently got fried and I purchased an eTEC USB ADSL modem, which I believe comes from the company "Conexant".

The modem itself works absoloutely perfectly, even better than my old one, so I am very reluctant to rid myself of it. The problem, though... Is that upon installing the WAN driver for it, it also added two desktop icons, a Start Menu program group, a dial-up connection, and a system tray indicator, all of which I can not seem to get rid of. They are driving me mad, deleting the connection, the program group, and the icons does nothing as they all simply return a very short time later, and there isn't even a preferences menu on the system tray indicator.

I was wondering if anyone could give me a hint, maybe a registry edit or two, to sort this crap out. Thanks in advance.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-08-23 07:23pm

I hate conexant. They flood the market with their stupid winmodem chips. I can't upgrade to kernel 2.6 due to the lack of a winmodem driver for it.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2003-08-23 09:37pm

You've actually gotten one to work?

I get calls on these things at work, and although they appear similar to my Netgear one, they don't actually work as expected. I've never actually gotten one to successfully connect.

TheFeniX · Post by **TheFeniX** » 2003-08-23 09:54pm

If you are running Windows XP then you can use the Network Settings to manually create a DSL connection.

Or you could buy a router and let it do your authentication and just uninstall the connection program.

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2003-08-23 10:31pm

TheFeniX wrote:If you are running Windows XP then you can use the Network Settings to manually create a DSL connection.

Or you could buy a router and let it do your authentication and just uninstall the connection program.

Using XP, deleting the connection but it just keeps coming back. It's driving me mad. I'm using my own connection, but the Conexant DSL connection just won't go away.

As for the router, I'll keep that in mind.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-08-24 10:39am

USB network adapters are shit. Utterly worthless shit.

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2003-08-24 10:49am

Darth Wong wrote:USB network adapters are shit. Utterly worthless shit.

The adapter itself works perfectly, it's just these bloody icons that are driving me mad.

As I said, there must be something I can do in the registry or something, any ideas?

TheFeniX · Post by **TheFeniX** » 2003-08-24 02:26pm

Embracer Of Darkness wrote:Using XP, deleting the connection but it just keeps coming back. It's driving me mad. I'm using my own connection, but the Conexant DSL connection just won't go away.

As for the router, I'll keep that in mind.

It looks like the program is just recopying the items back to the desktop when you delete them. The only way to stop this is probably to unistall the program. You might try just leaving the drivers for you DSL "modem" installed and runn XP's connection wizard.

Darth Wong wrote:USB network adapters are shit. Utterly worthless shit.

Maybe in the long run, but for quick connects: there is nothing better. Whenever I get a PC in that needs updates but only has a modem, I just plug-in our USB 1.1 NIC and pop-in the floppy with the drivers and I'm online in 10 seconds. Beats the Hell out of cracking the case open to install a PCI card.

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2003-08-24 05:16pm

TheFeniX wrote:
Embracer Of Darkness wrote:Using XP, deleting the connection but it just keeps coming back. It's driving me mad. I'm using my own connection, but the Conexant DSL connection just won't go away.
It looks like the program is just recopying the items back to the desktop when you delete them. The only way to stop this is probably to unistall the program. You might try just leaving the drivers for you DSL "modem" installed and runn XP's connection wizard.

I wish.

The software is actually listed as my WAN adapter in Add/Remove Programs, removing this uninstalls the driver.

There is no stand-alone software to speak of.

This is becoming depressing.

TheFeniX · Post by **TheFeniX** » 2003-08-24 11:01pm

You're screwed, buy a router. The new D-Links are like 40 bucks with a $30 mail-in rebate. They also come with a firewall. Sure, it's not top of the line, but you can always just block all incoming and it will work just fine. That will also make it easy to connect multiple PCs to your DSL without having to load those shitty software proxies.