On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> Hi All
>
...
>
> The only major outstanding item required for this box is minicom or its
> replacement. Hopefully the latter as I find minicom a trite stuffy but
> usable.
I like cu - it is part of the uucp package, and a nice crude terminal
emul
Thanks for the info.
By the way there is a Thinkpad user group and news group at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
Frank
On Sunday 15 December 2002 15:29, dashielljt wrote:
> Well you should know that on freshmeat newsletter in the last couple days
> a package was released for the thinkpad which would
Well you should know that on freshmeat newsletter in the last couple days
a package was released for the thinkpad which would allow you to program
the thinkpad's buttons to do certain linux tasks. It's
thinkpad_buttons-x.y.z.tar.gz I think.
Jude
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
Hi All
I finally got the IBM A30P Think Pad I have been working on for the last month
on line.
Getting Linux on was a bitch you people may recall all my posts concerning the
various distributions over this.
The modem has proven to be equally chalanging mainly because of lack of
information on
Greetings: If you don't have Minicom, re Ray's suggestion, you can,
if you have it in your distribution - use 'dip -t'...
I used it years ago to talk to a modem but I don't have it on this
machine.. Try 'man dip' for the syntax.. The '-t' flag means "test."
If you have the mfgr/model number and/o
> 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.
>
&
d 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:
> &g
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
Hi All
Question:
>From the command line how does one determine which port a modem is on?
Thanks
Frank
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