From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 20:57:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from david.io.com (david.io.com [199.170.88.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67DB137B406 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 20:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aus-as2-115.io.com (aus-as2-115.io.com [199.170.89.115]) by david.io.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f8A3vir21053; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:57:44 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:57:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: Reply-To: Lars Eighner To: fujie zhang Cc: Subject: Re: how to silence the modem In-Reply-To: <20010910010319.96845.qmail@web13804.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20010909222030.E17688-100000@dumpster.io.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, fujie zhang wrote: >hi, does anybody know how to silence the modem when >making a dial up connection using user ppp? i use a >USR PCI modem. appreciate your help on this. > >fujie For the generic modem, add L0 or L1 to your initialization string. see: man 5 modem and /etc/modems . Of course, you should consult the specific documentaion for your modem, if you have it. L0 and L1 both mean the lowest possible setting for speaker volume. If one doesn't work, try the other. L3 is the highest volume. In my experience, L1 is silent to the best of my hearing ability. Your milage may vary. Of course, you have to set the string directly in applications like minicom which access the modem directly without ppp. In fact, minicom is a good place to test initialization strings. If you just want to turn the volume for a give session, use minicom with L0 or L1 in the initialization string. If you don't have another L? in your /etc/modems initialization string, the setting will remain low throughout your uptime and will survive even a warm boot. In other words, speaker volume is a latch that will remain set. -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 700 Hearn #101 Austin TX 78703 (512)474-1920 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message