Time to use AT command set stuff: ATX4 and higher (eg. ATX7) pay attention
to dialtone -- ATX3 and lower don't. To make your modem really dumb, but
very compatible, go with ATX1 -- you'll have to plug it in to your modem
initialization string, or else you can bring up minicom and do something
like this:
at
OK
atx1
OK
at&w
OK
(I did this from memory, but it should be good -- in order, AT (are you
there?), atx1 (be dumb!), and at&w (write to non-volatile memory so it
won't go away when modem power is cycled.))
-Ken
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Mjo wrote:
> Okay, so thanks to the list I am now using ppp as if nothing ever happened.
> I am also now ip masquerading for both Ryan and my parents (yes, I'm VERY
> temporarily living with them till I grad)...
>
> I got voice mail 2 years ago because everyone complained that they always got a
> busy signal when I was on the net (i.e. 16/7), so they could at least leave a
> message. This was fine. In Windows, the dialer never worked when I had
> messages- when the dialtone "blinked." This was great because not being able
> to get on the net was the only thing that made me think to check my messages.
>
> A few months after I had been using SuSE along with Windows, I did something
> funky that made it so that in one of the OSs, it ignored the blinking dialtone.
> I *think* it might have been an option in SuSE? It may have been in Windows,
> I dunno. But I could dial even when I had messages.
>
> Anyway, now that my parents need to be on the net through my machine, they need
> to be able to dial it when I'm not here. So I'd like the dialer to ignore the
> blinking dialtone when I have messages. I want them to be able to have access,
> but don't want them checking my phone messages all the time. My isp dumps me
> too often to rely on just dialing up before I leave.
>
> Anyone know how to get the dialer to do this? I know it's possible.
>
> On the lighter side... My parents are 67 and 65 and totally computer clueless.
> I've spent much of the last 4 days teaching them about Netscape, aim, email,
> and basic Windows :/. When I told my mother her net connection would go through
> my modem, she said "Is that LEGAL?!?!?" ROFL!
>
> My dad's first site was Home Depot to look up vinyl shutters. My mother went
> to Ty.com to find beanie babies and then to the Crocodile Hunter site from
> Animal Planet.
>
> Scary. Very scary.
>
> -Mjo
>
>
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