How can I run a 56k voice modem on Windows 7?

[Rishabh Tejan]

I have an old smart link 56k PCI voice modem lying around.

It was working well with 32 bit windows xp and 7.

Then I moved to 64 bit. But later I found out that 64 bit drivers dont exist for this modem. Also windows 7 x64 wont install the 32bit drivers but shows it in the device manager(no driver).

Then somebody told me that I can run it on a virtual machine with windows xp 32 bit installed.

I installed virtualbox and then created a virtual machine with xp 32bit. The modem does not show up in device manager in xp.

Can anybody please explain how should I proceed?

 

[EntropicTempest]

Have you tried installing the driver in compatibility mode? Right click > Properties > Compatibility > Run this program in compatibility mode for:

Select Windows xp

 

[Rishabh Tejan]

no. drivers cant be installed in compatibility mode.
and by the way, the drivers are 32 bit.
they cant be used on an 64 bit os.