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Manual Installation: If your system was unable to detect the USB dongle, manually install the driver as
follows:
10. Plug the dongle into an available USB port.
11. Open the Control Panel. Open the Add New Hardware or Add/Remove Hardware panel,
depending on your system.
12. Follow the steps to add a new device. When you are given the option to choose a device type,
choose "Other Devices" (Win98) or "Add a new device" (Windows 2000).
13. If Windows asks you to either search or select the hardware from a list, choose to select from a
list.
14. At the hardware list screen, click on the "Have Disk" button.
15. Select your CD-ROM drive with the PhoneSweep CD in it, as the location of the drivers.
16. Back at the hardware list screen, choose the appropriate USB Dongle selection for your version of
Windows.
17. Proceed with the rest of the installation as prompted by Windows.
3.7 Selecting Modems for use with PhoneSweep
PhoneSweep requires at least one modem in order to scan a set of phone numbers. The quality of the
information that PhoneSweep gathers strongly depends on the capabilities and caliber of the modems used
with PhoneSweep. Some features of PhoneSweep, such as Single Call Detect, will only work with a
sufficiently capable modem:
Most, but not all, modems with a Rockwell (or Conexant) V.90 chipset support SCD.
(Note:
Conexant bought Rockwell, so some manufacturers now call it the Conexant chipset.)
Rockwell/Conexant modems that specifically mention support for “Simultaneous Voice and
Data” (SVD) will almost always be usable with PhoneSweep Single Call Detect.
Avoid using modems made before 1997, as they may not have a new enough version of the
Rockwell/Conexant chipset, even though checkmodems.exe says they are SCD capable.
Modems that do not have Rockwell/Conexant chipsets will NOT support Single Call Detect and
may not work accurately with PhoneSweep.
Advancing With The Times: New Conexant 3.3v Chipsets and PhoneSweep: As of PhoneSweep 3.01,
we began testing and approving modems that use Conexant’s new 3.3v chipsets for use with PhoneSweep
3.01 and above. With one exception, modems that use the Conexant 3.3v chipset are not compatible with
earlier versions of PhoneSweep. We have made a special note of these modems in our list on our web site.
As of PhoneSweep 4.4, a subset of some V.92 modems are approved for use with PhoneSweep.
A word of caution: If you use less capable modems in combination with more capable ones, your results
will vary based on which modem was used to make a particular call. For this reason, we recommend
using identical or at least similar modems with PhoneSweep Plus, Plus 8, 12 and 16, and that they all be
Single Call Detect-capable. (See the Section Equipping a Desktop Computer with Multiple Modems,
for multi-port and rack information.)