Thanks Bill, I'm glad it's not just me and my Mac.
Anne Cartwright On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 09:21 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > Hey y'all! > > Found a fix! It may or may not be optimal, but at least my machine can > dial out under Jaguar. > > . Use a text editor, like <a > href="http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit_lite.html";>BBEdit > Lite</a> > to open up the modem script being used. The modem scripts are in > /Library/Modem Scripts, and have the names which appear in the list of > modems on the modem tab of the Network preferences. > > . Find the line @LABEL 2 > > . insert the following 2 lines > > write "ath\13" > pause 30 > > . Save the modem script back into the /Library/Modem Scripts folder with > some name full of invectives. > > . Quit and the start the System Preferences > > . Choose your aptly named modem script from the list of modems. > > Voila! The modem script should work now. > > If you turn the modem sound on, and turn the volume way up high on your > computer, you should be able to hear the modem hanging up the phone > (this > it what the ath command does). > > One other thing which may have affected this (though I doubt it): I > found > that my modem needed a firmware update from the year 2000. It took only > about 2 hours of fighting with the machine (many, many crashes under OS > 9) to get the updater to work. The key here was to boot into OS 9, and > dial out once. Then everything went smoothly. Note that the unedited > modem script still failed after the firmware update. > > Now... time to try and figure out why my machine now refuses to go to > sleep! > > Somehow this list of tasks and the time spent on them is decidedly un > Mac-like. > > -- bill > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
