(wild stab in the dark) can you pass minicom a script? or something like that?
also do you have to atz (or otherwise initialise) the modem first? Now we know your number we should all try this. using at we could try it once an hour from 11 pm to 6 am. > Hi, > > I'm trying to make my computer give me a wake-up call > on my cell phone. > > The idea is to let the phone ring for ten seconds then hang > up. I figured a shell script something like this: > > echo ATDT0252411993 > /dev/modem > sleep 10 > echo ATH > /dev/modem > > the problem is that when I echo ATDT0252411993 > /dev/modem > nothing happens. > I can do it from minicom. > > I want a script that I can then put into my crontab to get my > wakeup call. > > Any clues as to how I can make this work? > The modem how-to only mentions apps like minicom. > > TIA > Yuri > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
