Re: Problems installing modem with faxaddmodem

[Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>]

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Ales Tancer wrote:

> So i created it my self and run faxsetup
> again. The modem is on COM3 - ttyS2. So i simply typed ttyS2 and all the
> stuff that is needed to setup modem. Faxaddmodem checks speed of modem
> and it stops at 19200. But after choosing speed i get messege "Modem is
> not responding....". Modem is not on a direct line, but on a phone
> central so i must first dial 9 to get a dial tone and then rest of
> numbers. I thought that faxaddmodem is checking for dial tone and i
> don't know where to tell him to dial 9 and then check for a dial tone.

I take it you have confirmed that the modem works properly if you
connect directly to it using `cu'?
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