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

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Camaleón wrote:
> 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:
>    
I'd echo that.  If you don't have your bit rate, parity, and stop bits 
set right, there's a very good chance that nothing you type will get any 
response.   Some pieces of the chain may auto-adapt, but as long as one 
step doesn't, things won't work.

Miles

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