[hcflinux] can't dial out on modem

[Bruce.Lamond at ed.ac.uk]

Hi Jean-Simon,
thanks for the reply. Yes, my modem works fine under windows. So how do I import
the RELAYS/FLAGS setings from the windows driver?
thanks in advance
Bruce Lamond

Quoting Linuxant modem support <modem.support at linuxant.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> we can see this error in the output of "dmesg":
> 
> ---
> 0647651.859: HCF: !!!DM ERROR: tone dialing, TDBE timeout???
> ---
> 
> Another user had this problem once and he found out that his phone line
> extension was defective.
> 
> Does your modem work properly under Windows? If it does, we might have
> to
> import the RELAYS/FLAGS settings from your windows driver.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jean-Simon Durand
> Technical specialist / Linuxant
> www.linuxant.com
> modem.support at linuxant.com
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Bruce.Lamond at ed.ac.uk>
> To: <hcflinux at lists.linuxant.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:10 PM
> Subject: [hcflinux] can't dial out on modem
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> I've tried installing both the rpm version of the HCF driver for my
> system
> (kernel 2.4.20-8 on i686) and the 'make install/hcfpciconfig' manual
> methods
> to
> get my modem to work. The driver installs fine but when I try to dial
> out
> with
> minicom, it connects then starts to display lots of weird characters
> with
> lots
> of '{' then returns 'NO CARRIER'
> Anyone got any ideas. Please see attached hcfdiag.txt file
> Cheers
> Bruce Lamond
> 
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