From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 29 13:06:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13032 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:06:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop02.globecomm.net (pop02.globecomm.net [206.253.129.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13027 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:06:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zen@buddhist.com) Received: from WhizKid (r45.bfm.org [208.18.213.141]) by pop02.globecomm.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id QAA11100; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:06:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19981229150341.00883100@mail.bfm.org> X-Sender: Stanislav@mail.bfm.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:03:41 -0600 To: larry_nilsen , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: working in interactive mode In-Reply-To: <368934FF.67016E29@eee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oh, this feels good! Someone has actually asked a question in my area of expertize, so I can finally help others instead of being helped all the time. :-) At 12:01 29-12-1998 -0800, larry_nilsen wrote: >My big Question is how am i suppose to type "at" when the >only thing my keyboard will respond to is ~. >is there somthing Im missing. To be able to type "at" >and get an OK back? right now all i see is that >rectangle black box and no prompt to type at. At that point you are communicating directly with your modem. Your keyboard is working fine, and whatever you type is sent to the modem. Whatever is sent back from the modem is then displayed on your monitor. Your modem can be set up to echo back whatever you send to it, or NOT to echo it back. Chances are its default settings are to echo back. If that is the case, type ATZ rather than just AT. You should receive "OK" from the modem. You should see everything you type after that. I said "should" because most modern modems let you change their defaults. If yours are changed, consult your modem manual on how to make echo the default. Also, you may want to read your modem manual for the specific command to turn echoing back without typing ATZ (since ATZ restores ALL defaults, that may not be what you want--or it may be exactly what you want, depending on your modem and how it is configured). Adam P.S. Theoretically, modem commands are case sensitive and should be typed in upper case: AT, not at. In reality, most new modems accept the commands regardless of the case. ===> Whiz Kid Technomagic <=== http://www.whizkidtech.net/ The resource center for webmasters and web users Winner of the Starting Point Hot Site award Winner of the Lighthouse Award Home of the Web Magic Award To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message