Re: tlug: Modem question

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 8 May 1998, Manuel Chakravarty wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> This question is not really Linux specific, but I stumbled
> over it when configuring my PPP scripts.  If I am in a hotel
> with my NotePC (running Linux of course ;-) and I want to
> dial out, then usually I have to prepend a 0 to get out of
> the hotel's local telephone system and get the usual dial
> tone. 
> 
> Now my problem is, without the standard dial tone my modem
> even doesn't want to dial this first 0.  I know there is a
> way to tell the modem to forget about the dial tone for a
> moment (in Windoze you can do that by selecting some check
> box or so, I think).  I consulted the docu of my modem and
> it seemed that I have to put a @ or W into the ATDP command, 
> but that doesn't work.  Any ideas? 

should be ATDT - ATDP is for pulse dialing... you want touch-tone.  

It might differ on different modems, too... on a USR you can just do AT$
in minicom and it'll dump all the standard opts (AT&$ for extended opts).

> 
> (I guess, this is independet of the modem, but I use a 3Com
> Etherlink III -- combined Ethernet/modem PCMCIA card.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Manuel
> 
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