Benjamin Scott said:
>On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote:
>> I had to switch from HW to SW flow control.
>
>  You want to use RTS/CTS ("hardware") flow control if you can.  It generally
>works better.

Yea, if I can figure it out ;-(
>
>> Unfortunately, US Robotics documentation ...
>
>  Try this command in minicom (or some other terminal emulator):
>
>       AT$

Now that I can grab minicom (don't know how I lost it from my setup), I'll 
try.

>
>The better US Robotics modems include built-in online help.  One of their 
own
>redeeming features, IMNSHO.  :-)
>
>> Now, we get to see them spend a whole chart telling someone how to put a
>> CD in a drive and run setup.exe.
>
>  Some people still won't be able to do it.

<grin>

>
>> As Jerry Pournelle once said:  "You can never have enough 
documentation."
>
>  Indeed.  Look on the CD/disks included with the modem.  They prolly have
>electronic documentation on their somewhere.

Oh, they've got it.  114 page PDF (plus tons of stuff on all the great 
services they have available).  I'll go through it more thoroughly tonight 
or this weekend.  So far, a lot of it seems to be "use the control 
software shipped on this CD" - which, of course, is a Windows package.

I did find in the docs what the lights mean :)

jeff

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Jeffry Smith      Technical Sales Consultant     Mission Critical Linux
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Thought for today:  wizardly adj. 

 Pertaining to wizards.  A wizardly
   feature is one that only a wizard could understand or use
   properly.





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