Modem Identification

Modem Identification

[Frank Roberts - SOTL]

Hi All


Question:
From the command line how does one determine which port a modem is on?


Thanks
Frank


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Re: Modem Identification

[Ray Olszewski]

At 08:14 PM 12/14/02 -0500, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
>Hi All
>
>
>Question:
> >From the command line how does one determine which port a modem is on?


It depends on exactly what you mean. I'm guessing that you intend to refer 
to a situation where you have 2 or more serial ports in a computer, and a 
modem conencted to one of them, but the ports are unlabeled so you dont 
know which one the modem is attached to. In that case, I would use a 
terminal app (such as minicom) to connect to each port, and see which port 
(actuall, its associated /dev/ttyS* entry) gets responses from the modem to 
typical AT commands.

There are many more things you *might* mean, though. So if I've guessed 
wrong (and someone else does not guess right), please post a followup that 
asks the question in a different, more specific form.



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Re: Modem Identification

[Frank Roberts - SOTL]

Thanks Ray

Actually your response is very close to my intent.

What I am trying to do is identify which port I have a modem which may or may 
not be a win modem connected to. 
It was purchased as a full modem but I sincerely question that it is.

As far as using minicom that is another slight problem there in that for some 
reason I do not have minicom functioning correctly or something resulting in 
that being the next major issue to be resolved since I need minicom for 
another major reason.

Isn't there a command that allows one to "ping" a modem from the command line 
and which returns the modem identification annd type? I seem to recall that 
there is but I can not recall it but again this may be falty network memory.

Thanks
Frank

On Saturday 14 December 2002 20:19, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 08:14 PM 12/14/02 -0500, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> >Hi All
> >
> >Question:
> > >From the command line how does one determine which port a modem is on?
>
> It depends on exactly what you mean. I'm guessing that you intend to refer
> to a situation where you have 2 or more serial ports in a computer, and a
> modem conencted to one of them, but the ports are unlabeled so you dont
> know which one the modem is attached to. In that case, I would use a
> terminal app (such as minicom) to connect to each port, and see which port
> (actuall, its associated /dev/ttyS* entry) gets responses from the modem to
> typical AT commands.
>
> There are many more things you *might* mean, though. So if I've guessed
> wrong (and someone else does not guess right), please post a followup that
> asks the question in a different, more specific form.

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Re: Modem Identification

[Chuck Gelm]

Hi, Frank:

 Is your modem internal or external?
If it is a full modem and it is internal
 it will appear as a uart.
 If your BIOS displays hardware configuration at bootup,
 watch for the extra serial port in 'the box'.

If it is external, you may need to guess its speed, parity,
 and 7 or 8 bits.  Once you can communicate with an external
 modem send it
ATI4
 and if it is Hayes Command Set compatible,
 it will tell you about itself.

 I purchased an alleged 'full modem' some years ago
only to find out it was a 'winmodem'. :-(

 The last one I bought was a 56k and cost about 34 USD.

HTH, Chuck


Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> 
> Thanks Ray
> 
> Actually your response is very close to my intent.
> 
> What I am trying to do is identify which port I have a modem which may or may
> not be a win modem connected to.
> It was purchased as a full modem but I sincerely question that it is.
> 
> As far as using minicom that is another slight problem there in that for some
> reason I do not have minicom functioning correctly or something resulting in
> that being the next major issue to be resolved since I need minicom for
> another major reason.
> 
> Isn't there a command that allows one to "ping" a modem from the command line
> and which returns the modem identification annd type? I seem to recall that
> there is but I can not recall it but again this may be falty network memory.
> 
> Thanks
> Frank
> 
> On Saturday 14 December 2002 20:19, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> > At 08:14 PM 12/14/02 -0500, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> > >Hi All
> > >
> > >Question:
> > > >From the command line how does one determine which port a modem is on?
> >
> > It depends on exactly what you mean. I'm guessing that you intend to refer
> > to a situation where you have 2 or more serial ports in a computer, and a
> > modem conencted to one of them, but the ports are unlabeled so you dont
> > know which one the modem is attached to. In that case, I would use a
> > terminal app (such as minicom) to connect to each port, and see which port
> > (actuall, its associated /dev/ttyS* entry) gets responses from the modem to
> > typical AT commands.
> >
> > There are many more things you *might* mean, though. So if I've guessed
> > wrong (and someone else does not guess right), please post a followup that
> > asks the question in a different, more specific form.
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Re: Modem Identification - Thanks

[Frank Roberts - SOTL]

Hi All

I finally got the IBM A30P Think Pad I have been working on for the last month 
on line.

Getting Linux on was a bitch you people may recall all my posts concerning the 
various distributions over this.

The modem has proven to be equally chalanging mainly because of lack of 
information on which is the best procedure to use. 

The only major outstanding item required for this box is minicom or its 
replacement. Hopefully the latter as I find minicom a trite stuffy but 
usable.

Thanks again for all the great help.

Frank
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Re: Modem Identification - Thanks

[dashielljt]

Well you should know that on freshmeat newsletter in the last couple days
a package was released for the thinkpad which would allow you to program
the thinkpad's buttons to do certain linux tasks.  It's
thinkpad_buttons-x.y.z.tar.gz I think.

Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:

Hi All

I finally got the IBM A30P Think Pad I have been working on for the last month
on line.

Getting Linux on was a bitch you people may recall all my posts concerning the
various distributions over this.

The modem has proven to be equally chalanging mainly because of lack of
information on which is the best procedure to use.

The only major outstanding item required for this box is minicom or its
replacement. Hopefully the latter as I find minicom a trite stuffy but
usable.

Thanks again for all the great help.

Frank
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Re: Modem Identification - Thanks

[Frank Roberts - SOTL]

Thanks for the info.

By the way there is a Thinkpad user group and news group at:

linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

Thanks

Frank
On Sunday 15 December 2002 15:29, dashielljt wrote:
> Well you should know that on freshmeat newsletter in the last couple days
> a package was released for the thinkpad which would allow you to program
> the thinkpad's buttons to do certain linux tasks.  It's
> thinkpad_buttons-x.y.z.tar.gz I think.
>
> Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>
>

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Re: Modem Identification - Thanks

[whitnl73]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:

> Hi All
>
...
>
> The only major outstanding item required for this box is minicom or its
> replacement. Hopefully the latter as I find minicom a trite stuffy but
> usable.

I like cu - it is part of the uucp package, and a nice crude terminal
emulator.

cu -l <device name>

FI /dev/ttyS1

or if you have devfs, /dev/tts/1.
>
> Thanks again for all the great help.
>
> Frank

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Re: Modem Identification

[Hal MacArgle]

Greetings: If you don't have Minicom, re Ray's suggestion, you can,
if you have it in your distribution - use 'dip -t'...

I used it years ago to talk to a modem but I don't have it on this
machine.. Try 'man dip' for the syntax.. The '-t' flag means "test."

If you have the mfgr/model number and/or FCC ID number you can search
on www.google.com to see if it's a WinModem or not.. The suggestions
are to stay away from WinModems with Linux but there are drivers for
the Motorola modem specifically for certain narrow distributions.

HTH and good luck,

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0   (2.4.13)
	       haltec@iceweb.net | w8mch@iceweb.net
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On 12-14, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> 
> Question:
> From the command line how does one determine which port a modem is on?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Frank
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