[ale] My modem is ignoring me

[David Koch]

James W. Lynch wrote:
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> > From ale-owner at cc.gatech.edu Wed May 29 11:33 EDT 1996
> > Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 11:19:39 -0400
> > From: Joe Bayes <jbayes at cs.oberlin.edu>
> > To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> > Subject: [ale] My modem is ignoring me
> > X-Display-Position: 0
> >
> >
> > I feel so shunned.
> >
> > I hooked my modem up to my serial port, and double checked to make
> > sure I was using the serial port and not the parallel port (male
> > db25). I turned my modem on, fired up Kermit, double checked that my
> > device was set correctly, set my speed, then hit "c".
> >
> > Whatever I typed after this point, not only did my modem not receive
> > it, but the keystrokes didn't even echo on the screen. The
> > Serial-HOWTO said nothing about this problem, and a week on and off of
> > fiddling  with it produced no results.
> >
> > Please, please tell me what I can do to get my modem to start talking
> > to me again. I feel so lost, so...disconnected...without it.
> >
> > --joe
> Joe,
> 
> Are you sure you have tried the following?
> <return>AT<return>
> 
> Are you sure you are using the right device?
> 
> Are you sure you know at what speed the modem is talking to you?
> 
> What did your set line and set speed commands look like?
> 
> Jim.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jim Lynch, Sales Analyst,  Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO
> Southeast District, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: jwl at cray.com
> Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269

depending on how the modem's settings were last stored,
it may be as simple as turning echo back on (ate1 i believe).

but as a last resort you can always do at&f, which puts the
modem back into factory defaults (which should have echo on,
but may change some other at register that you set prior...).

-dave

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