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Date:      Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:39:02 -0700
From:      Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net>
To:        Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>, Efren Bravo <efrenba@dhl.co.cu>
Cc:        freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Modem doesn't answer the phone
Message-ID:  <6.2.3.4.2.20050929153734.04f9a9c0@cobalt.antimatter.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050929183620.S26330@tripel.monochrome.org>
References:  <WorldClient-F200509291710.AA10570037@dhl.co.cu> <20050929183620.S26330@tripel.monochrome.org>

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At 03:39 PM 9/29/2005, Chris Hill wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Efren Bravo wrote:
>
>>I need your help about incoming connections through the modem.
>>
>>My modem is a External CNet C56k v.92 Data/Fax Modem and it is 
>>unable to answer the phone. I made a test with an old Motorola 
>>V.3292 modem and it works well. The CNet modem works fine on Win2k 
>>Advanced Server.
>>
>>Where could be the problem, on fBSD box or on the modem?
>>What can I do?
>
>You probably have to tell the modem to auto-answer incoming calls. 
>The command is ATA, according to 
>http://www.modemhelp.net/basicatcommand.shtml. I'd put this in a 
>modem initialization script somewhere, but I haven't used a modem 
>since 3.1 so I'm not sure exactly where that would go.

Actually, ata will tell the modem to pick up the phone and answer now.

ats0=1 will tell the modem to auto answer when the phone rings.

at&w will typically tell the modem to write the current settings to 
nvram so that they are available the next time it's turned on.

-Glenn


>HTH.
>
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