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From: BrianM
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:55

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On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:02:13 -0700, Lubiraz Alerano wrote:

> 
> 
>> Hi Lubiraz, thanks for your reply. I disabled the wait for dialtone in
>> the config but it made no difference, is there another setting?
> Yes, there is, the time it takes for the exchange to connect to line AND
> accept dialing. If the modem starts sending dial info at wrong time there
> is no recognition of it. I am sure that in Hayes commands you insert comma
> before the sequence of numbers and it tells the modem to delay dialing for
> some time (~2 seconds) after "picking the handset". Don't know which
> language your modem speaks but in my dial up days used this trick on
> wvdial configuration in Linux.
> 
> Good luck and have fun.

Ah yes I remember that now. I've used wvdial in some of the earlier
Xandros distros when I couldn't get kppp to go.  IIRC I even put 3
or 4 commas in front to slow it down. Thanks, I'll look at that

Brian

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