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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
To: Efren Bravo <efrenba@dhl.co.cu>
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Subject: Re: Modem doesn't answer the phone
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Efren Bravo wrote:

> I need your help about incoming connections through the modem.
>
> My modem is a External CNet C56k v.92 Data/Fax Modem and it is unable 
> to answer the phone. I made a test with an old Motorola V.3292 modem 
> and it works well. The CNet modem works fine on Win2k Advanced Server.
>
> Where could be the problem, on fBSD box or on the modem?
> What can I do?

You probably have to tell the modem to auto-answer incoming calls. The 
command is ATA, according to 
http://www.modemhelp.net/basicatcommand.shtml. I'd put this in a modem 
initialization script somewhere, but I haven't used a modem since 3.1 so 
I'm not sure exactly where that would go.

HTH.

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