Re: Using a phone card with a modem
This works fine for me with the ATT prepaid phone card -
use the comma for ~ 2 second delay. This is my chat script -
"" ATZ
OK ATM1L3S10=1
TIMEOUT 120
REPORT /usr/local/chat-log.txt
SAY "Dialing Web Site\n"
OK ATDTXXXXXXXXXXX,,,1,,PPPPPPPPPPPP,,,,,1,,NNNNNNNNNN
CONNECT
Where -
XXXXXXXXXXX = 1-800 access number on back of phone card
,,,1,, = delay waiting for computer to tell you to press
"1" for English instructions , followed by a delay waiting for computer
to tell you to enter your pin number.
PPPPPPPPPPPP = pin number on phone card
,,,,,1,, = delay waiting for computer to tell you to enter
one for domestic calls, followed by a wait for computer to tell you to
enter the area code + number you wish to dial.
NNNNNNNNNN = area code + number you wish to dial
Paul Winkler
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 10:59 am, Christopher Swingley wrote:
> I'm wondering about the feasability of using a long distance phone
> card for dial-up access while I'm on the road. My recollection from
> using these cards is that there's a lot of talking and prompting
> during the dialing process, and I have a feeling this would mess up
> a standard chatscript where it wants to dial all the numbers at once.
>
> There are escape codes within chat (\d = 1 sec, \p = 0.1 sec), that
> allow chat to sit around and wait, but I'm not sure if they'd work
> in the dialing section:
>
> "" ATDT99999999\d\d\d\d88888888\d\d\d\d7777777
>
> (9's are the phone card toll free number, 8's are the phone card id,
> 7's are the actual ISP phone number)
>
> Will this work? Is there another way? Can one acheive this manually
> by using minicom -- if so, how does one get the ppp connection going?
>
> Thanks!
>
On Tuesday 06 August 2002 10:59 am, Christopher Swingley wrote:
> I'm wondering about the feasability of using a long distance phone
> card for dial-up access while I'm on the road. My recollection from
> using these cards is that there's a lot of talking and prompting
> during the dialing process, and I have a feeling this would mess up
> a standard chatscript where it wants to dial all the numbers at once.
>
> There are escape codes within chat (\d = 1 sec, \p = 0.1 sec), that
> allow chat to sit around and wait, but I'm not sure if they'd work
> in the dialing section:
>
> "" ATDT99999999\d\d\d\d88888888\d\d\d\d7777777
>
> (9's are the phone card toll free number, 8's are the phone card id,
> 7's are the actual ISP phone number)
>
> Will this work? Is there another way? Can one acheive this manually
> by using minicom -- if so, how does one get the ppp connection going?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris
> --
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> IS Professional, Level 4 email: cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu
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