Re: [nottingham] NTL Tone Dialing Weirdness - Any Ideas Welcome

From: Andy Brown (nlug@jester.nu)
Date: Sat 19 May 2001 - 10:57:49 BST


On Sat, 19 May 2001, Robert Davies wrote:

>Anyway eventually I switched it to pulse dialing (simply by altering ATDT to
>ATDP in Minicom), the call goes through and a modem answers and the
>connection is made. Having gone back and configured wvdial to use pulse
>dialing, Kinternet connects to. So When I reboot, both Debian (using chat
>rather than wvdial) and Windows connect as usual using Tone dialing without
>problems. I thought that the dialing of modem, could not be altered by the
>OS as it's just sending an ATD string.
>

Is either windows or linux sending an initialization string to the
modem before it dials?
It's possible the modem defaults to .us tones & windows is switching
it to .uk, or it defaults to .uk and linux is switching to .us (or
maybe .de if it's suse 8-)
If you've got the problem with a freshly powered up modem & manually
dialling the first is more likely than the second.

-- 
Andy Brown

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