Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:28:52 -0700, S D wrote:

> --- On Fri, 9/17/10, Camaleón wrote:

>> Nonthing special. Well, just that you can establish a dialog with your
>> modem by sending AT commands and even place calls. And minicom is
>> perfect
>> for that :-)
> 
> 
(...)
 
> Tried minicom. Minicom doesn't seem to allow me to type any commands and
> seemingly responds only to "Ctrl A Z". Here's what I see when minicom
> starts.
> 
> Welcome to minicom 2.3
> 
> OPTIONS: I18n
> Compiled on Feb 24 2008, 16:35:15.
> Port /dev/ttyUSB0
> 
>                  Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys
> 
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks

Before you throw out your adapater :-), just be sure you cannot even 
communicate with minicom.

It's years since I've not played with minicom, but IIRC, it required to 
be properly setup before running commands ("minicom -s"). Take a look 
into this manual and if you still fail to dialog with your modem, just 
look for a replacement:

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/modem-minicom.html

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón