I’m using last year’s release of QNX RTP. Now, for some reason, when I’m
sitting at the login prompt for Photon (I don’t know if this happens any
other time - haven’t had a chance to test it yet) and someone tries calling
the phone number my computer is hooked up to, QNX will answer the phone.
This really isn’t good, as it’s not a dedicated connection. Anyone… help?
–Charles
Do you think that QNX is turning on auto-answer in the modem?
Most modems have two levels of controling this feature. Either
a dip switch or non-volatile ram controls the startup state,
and at a second level you can turn it off or on in software.
The usual command is:
ATS0=0 to turn it off and
ATS0=# where # is the number of rings to wait before picking up.
You can check the state with:
ATS0?
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com
Do you think that QNX is turning on auto-answer in the modem?
Most modems have two levels of controling this feature. Either
a dip switch or non-volatile ram controls the startup state,
and at a second level you can turn it off or on in software.
Yes, I think it likely is QNX, unless something in my BIOS got altered
(which is entirely possible) which allows for my 3com 56k to pick up? I
never had this happen before, but now that I’ve left QNX running on my
machine, it’s answering the phone for me…?
The usual command is:
ATS0=0 to turn it off and
ATS0=# where # is the number of rings to wait before picking up.
You can check the state with:
ATS0?
Hmm… Where can I enter these and execute them? I don’t exactly have
direct access to the modem 
And the only dialing program I know of for
QNX (at least, on my machine) is phdialer, which just tries to dial without
giving me any direct access. Appreciate it.
–Charles
I’m not at a QNX6 box right now but I believe it has qtalk program. Just type:
qtalk [-m/dev/ser?]
The -m option tells qtalk which serial port to use. It defaults to /dev/ser1
(aka com1 in DOS-talk) so you only need the -m option if you are using some
other port for you modem. Once started, qtalk will send whatever you type on
the keyboard to your modem.
Sir Charles wrote:
Do you think that QNX is turning on auto-answer in the modem?
Most modems have two levels of controling this feature. Either
a dip switch or non-volatile ram controls the startup state,
and at a second level you can turn it off or on in software.
Yes, I think it likely is QNX, unless something in my BIOS got altered
(which is entirely possible) which allows for my 3com 56k to pick up? I
never had this happen before, but now that I’ve left QNX running on my
machine, it’s answering the phone for me…?The usual command is:
ATS0=0 to turn it off and
ATS0=# where # is the number of rings to wait before picking up.
You can check the state with:
ATS0?
Hmm… Where can I enter these and execute them? I don’t exactly have
direct access to the modem >
QNX (at least, on my machine) is phdialer, which just tries to dial without
giving me any direct access. Appreciate it.–Charles
On Mon, 7 May 2001 12:14:02 -0700, Mitchell Schoenbrun
<maschoen@pobox.com> wrote:
Do you think that QNX is turning on auto-answer in the modem?
The dialer first issues ATZ, restoring the modem’s default
user profile. The auto-answer feature may be set there. (Other dialers
usually restore factory settings first, which may be different.)
Therefore any new settings (e.g., auto-answer off) to be permanent
should be saved in the profile (or repeated with an additional command
string in the dialer). The usual modem commands to view/set/select
profiles are AT&Vn, AT&Wn, AT&Yn.
Andrzej
Most modems have two levels of controling this feature. Either
a dip switch or non-volatile ram controls the startup state,
and at a second level you can turn it off or on in software.
The usual command is:ATS0=0 to turn it off and
ATS0=# where # is the number of rings to wait before picking up.
You can check the state with:
ATS0?
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- > maschoen@pobox.com