Hello James.

17 Oct 04 09:11, you wrote to all:

 JB> Hello All:

 JB>  I'm hoping someone might have a workable init string for a Hayes
 JB> Optima 288 V.FC? (Bring back some memories?) It only connects at
 JB> 14.4 now with plenty of CRC errors, and I know our POTS line aint
 JB> that bad. I trust it is "Hayes compatable" for obvious reasons.
 JB> <-;

Do you see any other corruption of it input.... extra or distorted characters?
the modem could be faulty...

 JB>  A) Is there a better place to ask?

MODEMS, COMM, google

 JB>  B) Factory default should be &Z1, or is that the user writable
 JB>  NV? Suplimentry: What is the write command?
 JB>  C) Is there a loopback test for the HW handshake on the cable?

in your terminal program a key to do at&v^m
and hit it ten times quickly, if flow control (in the inbound stream) is
working you'll not detect any missing characters.

 JB>  The UART is listed as 16550AN. Is this one of the buggered  ones
 JB> I've read so much about?

could be, I know NS-16550AFN is good.

 JB>  I do have a listing of the AT command set
 JB> I'm sure, but doubt I could find it in a day, let alone decypher
 JB> it. 

If you can find windows "drivers" (*.inf files) for it they
should give a few hints. (they're basically text files with commands to do
various things listted in them)

Jasen

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