I had a similarly frustrating experience with minicom, and finally was able to successfuly dial out on my pc-card modem (an IBM-branded US Robotics card) using wvdial. You might give wvdial a try if you can't get minicom to work. Good luck.
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 03:51:46AM -0700, Roman Stepanyan wrote: > > > Problems start when I try to dial a number. I use minicom for this (not > > > trying to configure PPP, just to dial ANYTHING!). So, the modem replies > > > to AT commands (at least minicom shows "OK" when I type AT<Enter> in the > > > term window), but > > > > > > 1. In the status line of the minicom I see "OFFLINE" > > > 2. I cannot dial any number > > > > > > The problem is also that I do not here any tone (phone-tone, I mean) - > > > but this seems to be "a feature" - I do not here it under Windows > > > either, although modem works and dials without any troubles. > > > > Try to play with AT X command. Might help. > > What does it do? > > > Did you try to dial a number as root? > > Yes, I did everything as root > > > And there might be problem with minicom itself. > > What exact error messages do you read at the minicom terminal? > > That's the problem - it does NOT issue any error messages. It says OFFLINE in > the status bar, and when I try to dial any number, it just tries without any > success. That's it. No messages whatsoever. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
