Re: E-Tech 56K6 PCMCIA modem
I had a similarly frustrating experience with minicom, and finally was
able to successfuly dial out on my pc-card modem (an IBM-branded US
Robotics card) using wvdial. You might give wvdial a try if you can't
get minicom to work. Good luck.
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 03:51:46AM -0700, Roman Stepanyan wrote:
> > > Problems start when I try to dial a number. I use minicom for this (not
> > > trying to configure PPP, just to dial ANYTHING!). So, the modem replies
> > > to AT commands (at least minicom shows "OK" when I type AT<Enter> in the
> > > term window), but
> > >
> > > 1. In the status line of the minicom I see "OFFLINE"
> > > 2. I cannot dial any number
> > >
> > > The problem is also that I do not here any tone (phone-tone, I mean) -
> > > but this seems to be "a feature" - I do not here it under Windows
> > > either, although modem works and dials without any troubles.
> >
> > Try to play with AT X command. Might help.
>
> What does it do?
>
> > Did you try to dial a number as root?
>
> Yes, I did everything as root
>
> > And there might be problem with minicom itself.
> > What exact error messages do you read at the minicom terminal?
>
> That's the problem - it does NOT issue any error messages. It says OFFLINE in
> the status bar, and when I try to dial any number, it just tries without any
> success. That's it. No messages whatsoever.
>
>
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