From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 22:40:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9A516A45B for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:40:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from cobalt.antimatter.net (cobalt.antimatter.net [69.55.224.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70AF343D4C for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:40:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from glenn-mobile.antimatter.net (216-70-228-172.cust.telepacific.net [216.70.228.172]) (authenticated bits=0) by cobalt.antimatter.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8TMeGu1018067 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:40:21 -0700 X-MailKey: purple frogs are falling from the sky Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.2.20050929153734.04f9a9c0@cobalt.antimatter.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:39:02 -0700 To: Chris Hill , Efren Bravo From: Glenn Dawson In-Reply-To: <20050929183620.S26330@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <20050929183620.S26330@tripel.monochrome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: Modem doesn't answer the phone X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:40:47 -0000 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. > >-- >Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org >** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"