Hi Paul,
I get a similar situation. Although I can't help you.
I hope you don't mind me asking... do you find that
there is a significant delay in minicom to initialise
your modem.
Operation of the modem on my system seems to take ages?
any ideas or have you experienced this?
---Paul Lilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've just installed a new modem as I think my
previous PPP setup
> problems were at least partly caused by a faulty
modem. New one is a
> USR Sportster 56k flash external plugged onto
/dev/cua1 (COM2) and seems
> to behave fine under minicom (responds to commands,
dials etc.).
>
> However, when i try to use chat to talk to it using
the following
>
> /usr/sbin/chat -v
\
> TIMEOUT 3
\
> ABORT '\nBUSY\r'
\
> ABORT '\nNO ANSWER\r'
\
> ABORT
'\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r' \
> '' ATZ
\
> 'OK-+++\c-OK' ATH0
\
> TIMEOUT 60
\
> OK ATZ
\
> OK 'AT&F'
\
> OK 'AT&C1'
\
> OK 'AT&D2E1'
\
> OK 'ATS11=70'
\
> OK 'ATS7=30'
\
> OK 'ATDT055'
\
> CONNECT ''
>
> I get no response from the modem and the following
in /var/log/messages
>
>
> May 27 16:57:21 localhost chat[1008]: timeout set
to 3 seconds
> May 27 16:57:21 localhost chat[1008]: abort on
(\nBUSY\r)
> May 27 16:57:21 localhost chat[1008]: abort on
(\nNO ANSWER\r)
> May 27 16:57:21 localhost chat[1008]: abort on
> (\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r)
> May 27 16:57:21 localhost chat[1008]: send (ATZ^M)
> May 27 16:57:21 localhost chat[1008]: expect (OK)
> May 27 16:57:24 localhost chat[1008]: alarm
> May 27 16:57:24 localhost chat[1008]: send (+++)
> May 27 16:57:24 localhost chat[1008]: expect (OK)
> May 27 16:57:27 localhost chat[1008]: alarm
> May 27 16:57:27 localhost chat[1008]: Failed
>
> I have checked that /dev/modem is a link to
/dev/cua1 but beyond that I
> am confused.
>
> Any enlightenment would be most welcome!
>
> TIA
> Paul
>
>
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