@GyrosGeier @adapalmer @thinkpadmuseum @xtaran they always put the FN key there.

See the PS/2 Note N33sx: https://muzeuldecalculatoare.ro/2016/10/18/ibm-ps2-note-n33sx-type-8533-before-the-thinkpads/

It being in the corner also meant you could turn on the ThinkLight(tm) easily because it was "bottom left" + "top right"

@gridbugs off the top of my head,

* turn off fax awareness
* turn off echo cancellation
* turn off anything that sounds like dynamic jitter compensation; set it to manual and the highest setting, if possible

I can somewhat reliably get 28.8k on a SPA8000 -> Cisco 3745 and those were the key settings.

I would also check that your phone line settings are right (regional variations like dial tone) but not sure if those are your problem.

@whitequark my current personal beef, for:

* NDA'd datasheets, for everything
* Garbage WiFi chips
* Upstream kernel support for their SoCs (Great!) but somehow are un-bootable on commercial boards (maybe this is a skill issue)

Marvell! Even their SATA <-> IDE bridge chip datasheet is NDA'd

@rygorous along similar lines I used to take some vitamin C supplements, and I swear they'd taste better sometimes (despite they were just artificial sweetener and orange flavour).

I can only imagine it's partially because I needed it more when it tasted better.