Re: [Sheflug] no dial tone?...

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:45:13PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > Ough... Then it might still be the case that the old modem is fine and the
> > problem is in the BT line...

Looks like it IS the BT line fault, that they can't identify... The new
modem also failed to detect the dial tone / carrier...

> > Can AT ALL the problem be associated with
> > computer hard / software? Provided that otherwise everything seems to work
> > - minicom, AT-commands, 'OK' replies from the modem... Until you try to
> > dial... I presume it can't be the case - dial tone / carrier detection is
> > only between the modem and the line, right?...
> 
> 	You can try using AT&V1 (I think). This reports the line status
> and all sorts of things. The detection of the dialtone is done by the
> modem

AT&V1 seems to be a proprietary command, specific to only some modems - it
is not in the list of Hayes commands that I use (from kppp documentation),
typing it doesn't produce any meaningful output...

> Get yourself a modem number that replies (eg, your ISP), get a phone and
> fire up minicom. Dial your ISPs phone number by hand, and when you start
> hearing the whirring sounds of glory, type into minicom ATD. If after a
> while you get something like:
> CONNECT 
> <blah blah>

Will try this tonight, but don't expect much success... I just want to
make sure it is NOT my system that's faulty, because if they send an
engineer in and he doesn't find a fault in the line - they charge you 70
pounds... No, I can't get another computer to try connect it to my line,
nor I can try connecting my system to another line...

Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk



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