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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

echo atz > /dev/ttyS1 (internal modem on com2)  did not help, when entered 
manually just before dialing rather than in rc.M.  We have had to put 
lines in autoexec.bat before to deal with a couple of Cirrus pnp 
non-winmodems that had to be hung up before they would work in DOS.  
Unfortunately that also hung up the connection if someone turned on the 
computer and the other person was online.  We are using them for Windows 
computers for friends instead.  

I dial and see 'registered device ppp0' and wait a while.
I Ctrl-C and dial again and immediately get noises and it dials and says 
Serial connection established.  Nothing about registered device this time.
Other suggestions?   My workaround is tolerable.


On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Matrix Mole wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > With the 56K modem I have to dial twice in order to connect to my ISP (but
> > only once with Kermit to connect to the bbs).  This has never happened
> > using eznet with any other modems.  What might I do to diagnose this
> > non-life-threatening problem?  The first time I dial it just does nothing.
> > I have not waited for it to time out.  I redial and immediately hear
> > noises and it dials.
> 
> It sounds as if the modem isn't initializing properly for the conncetion
> to your ISP, when you cancel the connection and retry, one of the init
> strings that gets sent to halt the connection may in fact properly
> initialize the modem. Check you init strings, if this is a non-software
> controlled modem (ie, not a win/linmodem) then you may be able to get by
> with sending an atz command directly to the modems com port during the
> autoexec.bat or even the rc.M script (IIRC that's the script that brings
> linux online in multiuser mode). To send the atz command, you simply echo
> atz to the com port (/dev/ttys# where # is com port -1 in linux IIRC).
> 
>