Use minicom to talk to your modem.
Most modems will respond to AT&V and show you the current settings.
To change the S2 register to the value 255 I sent ATS2=255 to set it, then
AT&W to lock it in.
Changing the S2 register from 43 (ASCII "+") to 255 causes the modem not
to respond to a "+++" string. This string is only supposed to shift the
modem from communcation mode to command mode if it has a 1 second guard
(no data) either side of the string, but in my case this guard, even
though it was set, was being ignored.
The other register you might be interested in is S0, this is the number of
rings before the modem answers in auto-answer mode; the default is the
value 0 (don't auto-answer), usually (I think even legally) it is reset to
at least a value of 2 to enable auto-answer.
--
Howard.
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LANNet Computing Associates <http://www.lannet.com.au>
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Aaron Binns wrote:
>
>
> >It would appear that the modem I am using for this dialin is behaving
> >badly, despite the S12 register being factory default set at 50/50ths
> >second, it seems that the software blithly ignores it.
> >
> >Solution was to set the S2 register from 43 to 255 so that it totally
> >ignores the "+++", and use the hardware signal drop to initiate the
> >hangup, which it was doing anyway.
>
>
> This might seem a stupid question.. but for those who dont know how to do that..
>
> How do you change the registers on your modem and why is it necessary to do so?
>
> Aaron
>
>
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