On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:37, John McQuillen wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:04, Ray Henry wrote: > > > > > So, got it working. Now just have to figure out why it can't detect a > > dial tone. It's somewhere in software... Modem responds to all commands > > except dialing out... :/ > > > I have often experienced problems with modems not detecting a dialtone > here in Australia, and I have always just told the modem to ignore it. > If there's a dialtone, there's a dialtone, it doesn't matter whether the > modem can detect it or not... > > In kppp you can just uncheck 'wait for dial tone before dialing', or try > changing 'atdt' in your dial string to 'atd/' > > Regards, > > John...
Or, to make it wait a tad bit longer (Telstra is Satan) - you can do something like: ATDT ,,, (the comma's are 1 second pauses) ...but I also found that forcing a generic init string to the modem can get better results as well: AT &F &C1 &D2 E1 Q0 V1 ...which can also solve problems with line noise (&C1 &D2) and proper echo recognition to the modem (E1)... -- Thu Dec 12 06:40:00 EST 2002 6:40am up 23:02, 5 users, load average: 0.18, 0.09, 0.19 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | k�hn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen k�hn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Gr�tens*Liebe Gr��e*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.
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