Greg Cobb wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 GZP>> Thank you All for the answers, but the echo method don't works 
 GZP>> for me. I see, modem receive the command, (blinking led) but do 
 GZP>> nothing.
 -> This sounds like perhaps there's a mismatch of baud rate between what the
 -> port is set at and what the modem is looking to see.  Something to look
 -> at, anyway...
 GC> I've installed a few modems that did something like that.  The 
 GC> light would flash but I couldn't ever use the modem. What I 
 GC> found was that not all the DB-25 ribbon cables you see will 
 GC> work the same on every system board.  I went through 4 
 GC> different ones for this system before I found one that would 
 GC> work. Now, I'll always give something the benefit of the doubt 
 GC> that I may have had 4 bad connectors, but I find that to be 
 GC> unlikely seeing how they were all new.  I also (when doing 
 GC> support for Gateway) ran across an article relating to this on 
 GC> the web.  I can't remember if it was Intel, but it's whoever 
 GC> makes/made the Thor and Tiger-Eye system boards.  They said 
 GC> plain as day on the page that not all pinouts for a DB-25 
 GC> connector were the same.
 GC> Just something to consider in the future....
Good point,  it very well *could* be a cable problem.  Like if the modem 
isn't seeing the DTR signal,  for one example...
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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