On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:48:37, Alejandro Lieber wrote:
> On 20 Jan 01 at 18:49, Gerald Kucera wrote:
>> Yesterday I experieced another strange thing. I used Arachne in the
>> WinDOSbox to fetch mails. Then I left Arachne with <alt+X> and tried to
>> start AOL also to fetch mails. But AOL complained and said: COM2 (where
>> my modem is) is in use! I had to restart Windows and then could go to
>> AOL (excuse me using AOL, but it was my first contact with the net).
>> I belive that means Arachne does not clear out properly or leaves
>> something in a changed mode. If this happens in DOS could that block the
>> PPP-driver?
> I have the same problem.
> 1)-When I finish using arachne, any version using miniterm, if I try
> to use again my modem, I have to reset my 586 with a cold boot.
> 2)-I have the same problem with LSPPP.
> 3)-This does not happen when I dial with NetDial by Mark Ressl (he
> lives by my house, but studies in Buenos Aires)
> It seems that some dialers (when they hung) leave some line high or
> low, but I cannot discover how to reset the modem correctly.
Try this at the DOS prompt
echo ath>com1
(change com# as needed for your setup)
To test it for dialing:
echo atdt your_own_phone_#>com1
(change to atdp if you need "pulse dialing")
(it should dial and get a busy signal)
--
Glenn
(your friendly neighborhood compu-nerd)
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