When Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote, I replied: Try the command
man minicom to learn about the minicom program for manipulating your modem. I don't have personal experience with it, (when I need to do these things, I write a perl script or something to gain access to the port/modem) but I've seen messages to this list which have been enthusiastic about minicom. Hope this helps. > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Helge Hafting [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: dinsdag 9 februari 1999 19:55 > Aan: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Onderwerp: Re: DSelect and ftp > > You wrote: > > Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: > > > ppp.log: > > ... > > > send (ATZ^M) > > > expect (OK) > > > ^M > > > NO CARRIER > > > -- Failed > > > Failed (NO CARRIER) > > > Connect script failed > > > exit. > > > > That sounds as if ppp (or chat) is sending `ATZ' to the modem, expecting to > > get back `OK' but getting `NO CARRIER' instead. Is that right? > > > > That'd definitely be a problem, but I'm not sure how it'd come about; why > > would a modem respond to `ATZ' with `NO CARRIER'? > > Simple enough - the modem wasn't in command mode, it was at the end of the > previous > dial (that failed) but somehow the modem wasn't put back in command mode when > ppp > or whatever gave up. (It is a good idea setting the modem up to automatically > hang up and go to command mode when DTR drops. That should avoid this > problem.) > > So dialer sends ATZ to a modem that is dialling already. This normally makes > the modem give up the dialling asap, and return NO CARRIER. Trying > ATZ again will usually work. > > Helge Hafting > > John Hasler wrote: > ATZ means "soft reset and restore stored profile 0". Perhaps profile 0 is > whacky. Try AT&F0 to restore factory profile 0. > > John Hasler > > I am sorry, but I am a linux newbie and I don't know how to setup the modem > to hang up and go to command mode when DTR drops and I don't know how to try > AT&F0. Would you be so kind as to explain some modem-basics for linux to me, > please. > > Thanks, > > Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ----------------------------------------- Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the number of members.