Re: [aclug-L] ppp, again

["Jeffrey L. Hansen" <jhansen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The modem is linked to cua1 (I think that's what it was - I had most of one 
eye open at the time).  I'm hoping that the modem is okay since it's so 
old.  I don't think there was such a thing as a winmodem then.
jeff2

At 03:44 PM 3/31/99 -0500, you wrote:



> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Jeffrey L. Hansen wrote:
>
> > Is there a built in diagnostic that will communicate
> > with modem and evaluate whether or not it's in the loop?
> Is /dev/modem a link to the right device?
>
> try sending
> ATA
> in minicom?
>
> I think there's also a way to send raw modem commands to the device,
> possibly 'echo ATA' > /dev/ttyS1; but I might be mistaken (never tried
> it).
>
> -jeff
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