Thanks Ray Actually your response is very close to my intent.
What I am trying to do is identify which port I have a modem which may or may not be a win modem connected to. It was purchased as a full modem but I sincerely question that it is. As far as using minicom that is another slight problem there in that for some reason I do not have minicom functioning correctly or something resulting in that being the next major issue to be resolved since I need minicom for another major reason. Isn't there a command that allows one to "ping" a modem from the command line and which returns the modem identification annd type? I seem to recall that there is but I can not recall it but again this may be falty network memory. Thanks Frank On Saturday 14 December 2002 20:19, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 08:14 PM 12/14/02 -0500, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > >Hi All > > > >Question: > > >From the command line how does one determine which port a modem is on? > > It depends on exactly what you mean. I'm guessing that you intend to refer > to a situation where you have 2 or more serial ports in a computer, and a > modem conencted to one of them, but the ports are unlabeled so you dont > know which one the modem is attached to. In that case, I would use a > terminal app (such as minicom) to connect to each port, and see which port > (actuall, its associated /dev/ttyS* entry) gets responses from the modem to > typical AT commands. > > There are many more things you *might* mean, though. So if I've guessed > wrong (and someone else does not guess right), please post a followup that > asks the question in a different, more specific form. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
