Greetings, I have a problem with the farm telephone lines, when you lift the receiver the there is a 4 to 5 second pause before you get a dial tone, The internet dailers don't wait long enough they just give a no dial tone error, If I disable detect dial tone then it dials before there is a dial tone Is there a way to make the dialer lift the handset and wait 5 secs before dialing? Thanks Chad
On Thursday 31 March 2005 08:51 am, Chadley Wilson wrote: <snip>
I have a problem with the farm telephone lines, when you lift the receiver the there is a 4 to 5 second pause before you get a dial tone,
Hi Chad, The "Hayes compatible" AT command that told a modem to pause for one second used to be a comma, i.e. ",". I can remember having to strategically insert strings of consecutive commas for this very reason. Now, I don't know if this is true in your situation, but I'd have a look at your docs and/or Google and focus on "dialup strings" and options available in your equipment. regards, - Carl -- _______________________________________________________________________ C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services http://www.cehartung.com/ carlh@cehartung.com Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Public Keys 68396713 & F8207216 Reg. Linux User #350527 http://counter.li.org/ ----->>>>>http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html <<<<<-----
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:51 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I have a problem with the farm telephone lines, when you lift the receiver the there is a 4 to 5 second pause before you get a dial tone,
The internet dailers don't wait long enough they just give a no dial tone error, If I disable detect dial tone then it dials before there is a dial tone
Is there a way to make the dialer lift the handset and wait 5 secs before dialing?
Try adding ,'s (comma) before the number being dialed. This is supposed to be the pause character. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Thursday 31 March 2005 16:34, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:51 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I have a problem with the farm telephone lines, when you lift the receiver the there is a 4 to 5 second pause before you get a dial tone,
The internet dailers don't wait long enough they just give a no dial tone error, If I disable detect dial tone then it dials before there is a dial tone
Is there a way to make the dialer lift the handset and wait 5 secs before dialing?
Try adding ,'s (comma) before the number being dialed. This is supposed to be the pause character.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
Thanks Ken and Carl I will give it a try when I go out there tommorow Chad
The Thursday 2005-03-31 at 16:44 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
I have a problem with the farm telephone lines, when you lift the receiver the there is a 4 to 5 second pause before you get a dial tone,
The internet dailers don't wait long enough they just give a no dial tone error,
I don't think it is the dialer program fault, but the modem itself. One of the variables there surely holds the time to wait, but I would have to read the manual to tell you. [...] Well, I did read it. Mine says: S6 2 Sets the number of seconds the modem waits before dialing. If Xn is set to X2 or X4, this is the time-out length if there isn't a dial tone. S7 60 Sets the number of seconds the modem waits for a carrier. That's for my 3Com U.S. Robotics (R) modem, yours might be different. You may add that as a permanent configuration (power on defaults, or default profile).
Try adding ,'s (comma) before the number being dialed. This is supposed to be the pause character.
Thanks Ken and Carl I will give it a try when I go out there tommorow
I'm afraid it will not work so easily, because it is a part of the dial up string, and the software doesn't send it before getting dialing tone... you will have to tell it not to wait for the tone, and then, add the pauses. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:51 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I have a problem with the farm telephone lines, when you lift the receiver the there is a 4 to 5 second pause before you get a dial tone,
The internet dailers don't wait long enough they just give a no dial tone error, If I disable detect dial tone then it dials before there is a dial tone
Is there a way to make the dialer lift the handset and wait 5 secs before dialing?
Try adding ,'s (comma) before the number being dialed. This is supposed to be the pause character.
That will only cause the modem to wait before dialing, but after it detects the carrier. The S6 register controls how long to wait for the dial tone. Also, some of the "X" modes affect the response.
Chadley Wilson wrote:
Is there a way to make the dialer lift the handset and wait 5 secs before dialing? Add one comma for each 2 second pause you need. If you need 5 seconds, use 3, i.e. ,,,333-4444 -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Chadley Wilson wrote:
Is there a way to make the dialer lift the handset and wait 5 secs before dialing?
Add one comma for each 2 second pause you need. If you need 5 seconds, use 3, i.e. ,,,333-4444
That will do nothing for waiting for the dial tone. It will only affect the delay, after the DT has been detected. Use the S16 register.
James Knott wrote:
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Chadley Wilson wrote:
Is there a way to make the dialer lift the handset and wait 5 secs before dialing?
Add one comma for each 2 second pause you need. If you need 5 seconds, use 3, i.e. ,,,333-4444
That will do nothing for waiting for the dial tone. It will only affect the delay, after the DT has been detected. Use the S16 register.
Sorry, that should be S6 register.
Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I have a problem with the farm telephone lines, when you lift the receiver the there is a 4 to 5 second pause before you get a dial tone,
The internet dailers don't wait long enough they just give a no dial tone error, If I disable detect dial tone then it dials before there is a dial tone
Is there a way to make the dialer lift the handset and wait 5 secs before dialing?
Use the "S6" register, to set how long the modem will wait for dial tone. It is also possible to configure the modem to simply wait and then start dialing. Read the modem manual, for further reading. If it's not available, Google on modem AT codes.
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