Re: Modem Identification

[Chuck Gelm <nc8q@gelm.net>]

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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