From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 17 12:25:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8593137B415 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA12184; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:29:04 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:29:04 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: testing modem In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020617120919.0095b400@pop.netzero.net> Message-ID: 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 Yer Lardship, Sare - On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Lord Raiden wrote: > What I want to do is to have the modem on the computer to be tested hook > directly into the testing computer. Then when I activate the modem to be > tested I want the testing computer to fake dialtone and then take over and > pretend that it's the actual modem being dialed into. Then I want it to > collect info and pretend to be connected for a bit then hang up. Your objective makes sense, but are there any commands by which a 'vanilla' modem can generate a dialtone, a ring, detect 'off-hook', etc? I would suppose that a consumer modem would depend on the telephone system to perform these functions. DISCLAIMER - That's just a wild-a** guess. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message