[plug] ppp dialup problems

[David Griffiths]

Hi Bruce,
>
>Something seems a bit odd. When I run minicom it definitely talks
>to the modem, but the data it displays is rubbish (non-ascii
>characters). I tried a couple of the AT commands people mentioned
>here, and something seems to happen but of course it is a bit hard
>to tell when you can't read the output. I tried "ATD" (which I
>assume is a dial command) - the "OH" light came on and the modem
>made that noise that it normally makes just before dialling.
>
>Any idea why the minicom output would be strange? Any pointers
>to documentation of the AT commands?
>
In addition to checking out the things BillK and others mentioned, you
might like to have a look at the Modem-HOWTO in the /usr/doc/HOWTO dir
(part of the howto-6.x.x.rpm on RH 6.2) which contains lots of good
information, including some basic AT commands. (This rpm is on RedHat's 3rd
documentation CD from memory if you are using the official cd set - tricky
to find at first.)

cheers,

Dave.



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