[ALUG] linux newbie - help requested

[(Ted Harding)]

On 15-Jan-07 Adam Bower wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:34:41AM -0000, Keith Watson wrote:
>> 
>> I'd 2nd Ted's comments, get an external box if you can find one. It's
>> not that easy these days finding new ones although 2nd hand ones are
>> available on places like eBay.
> 
> Hmmn, dunno about that, finding decent hardware modems is pretty easy,
> just the decent ones seem to cost 50 quid. FWIW after we moved recently
> I had to dig out our external modem while waiting for the dsl to be
> enabled, this was a US Robotics something-or-other which I'd had for 
> about 5 years. After playing around with V92 and it not working I 
> realised that US Robotics had released a firmware update for this modem
> late last year and had made a linux compatible installer for it 
> available. After a quick (well, long slow and painful, it was dialup) 
> download later it just ran as a shell script and I was sorted. 
> So +1 for USR equipment. 

Yes, I had a USR (US Robotics) modem (Sportster model) for a good
while, until its on/off switch failed (and, despite tinkering, I
couldn't fix it).

So then I bought the Zoom modem I mentioned in my previous post.
See http://www.hayes.co.uk for more info about a range of modems.

I still keep the USR "User's Manual" by me, though, for the Zoom
modem, since it has a comprehensive reference listing for the Hayes
AT commands. (Useful, in particular, for Fax use). The manual with
the Zoom is almost silent about these.

Listings of the AT commands can be found in various places, e.g.

  http://www.cellular.co.za/hayesat.htm

but it's nice to have a source with a bit more explanation than
given by the above!

Ted.

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