From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 13 14:25:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11025 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:25:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10972 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:24:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from localhost by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #24029) with SMTP id <0EUI00B01E5CDS@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 17:24:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 17:24:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: Can modems be seen, not heard? In-reply-to: <01BD96E2.FEF3D590@MANNY> To: Dave Bender Cc: "'questions@freeBSD.org'" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can always give a M0 to your modem init string. That will turn the speaker off. For example: AT&F1M0 Will initialize most modems to company default, then turn the speaker off. Joe Clarke On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Dave Bender wrote: > How would a person make the modem run in quiet mode using ppp? Along those same lines, is there a way to get a visual display of what the modem is doing? > > I've got my FreeBSD machine in a corner of the bedroom. Kinda wakes up my wife (and me, sometimes) when it decides it needs to connect to the outside world (like when I'm browsing from a machine elsewhere in the house). > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message