Modem doesn't answer the phone

Glenn Dawson glenn at antimatter.net
Thu Sep 29 15:40:47 PDT 2005


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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