On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> What you can do is to see if you can communicate with this
> modem in MSDOS, perhaps using one of those free communications
> programs. Make sure its generic. Boot into DOS...not a
> DOS window, but actually stop the booting process with F8
> and select "command prompt only". then fire up your program.
> If you can dial out and otherwise communicate with the modem,
> you should be okay for Linux.
>
Could also do an "echo atdt <phone number> >com2<enter>"
at a dos prompt (again, booting to dos mode or boot as
instructed above) and that SHOULD allow you to test w/o
having to have a dos-based terminal program. :-)
John
