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From: David Stes <stes@pandora.be>
Organization: http://users.pandora.be/stes
Subject: Re: no dialtone problem
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 14:50:38 +0200
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>
> If you have no idea what type of modem it is, why are you using
> modem type 'zoom'?
The pcmcia modem is indeed a zoom 56k modem. I'm using it successfully
with Belgacom (traditional telephone company in Belgium). I just can't
use it with Telenet (new telephone company here).
> You will need to find out what kind of modem it is in order to be able
> to issue the correct commands to the modem to ignore dialtone.
> Try using ATI0 to ATI12 to see what you can find out.
It is a zoom pc-card modem ... As I said, I have a zoom modem connected
to this "cable <-> telephone modem" that the cable company (telenet)
installed.
It's a bit complicated: the cable company installed two "modems" (1) a
modem for cable <-> ethernet, but that has nothing to do with the
current discussion, then there is (2) a modem for cable <-> telephone
and (3) there's my regular zoom modem (in my computer).
I thought I could connect (3) to (2) to make a call (to a BBS).
This may sound silly at first; you may say, why not using modem (1) for
internet access. That's exactly what I'm doing now (via ethernet
connected to modem (1)).
But to dial-in into services that are not on the internet, but do have a
telephone number that I can dial to, I still need to go over a telephone
line.
Sorry if it all doesn't make sense ...