Thanks to everyone for the help. I'm just starting to learn scripting. I'm
also going to get the O'Reilly book on Expect. Someone else suggested that
as a good place to start.
Nico, you may want to look at the IBM support site for the driver for your
modem. I just did a quick search and
Lucky you! I didn't get the softmodem on my TP570 (lucent modem) into a
working state.
Since your script needs to be run just once after system boot, you could for
instance append the line
/path_to_script/acpsetup
to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, so it gets automatically executed when your box
I have an IBM 600 laptop running 7.2 and it has an internal ACP (Win Modem).
I downloaded a driver from the IBM website and installed it fine and the
modem works well. It's just that after start-up and rebooting, I have to su
in and give root password and issue the following commands.
