Making a phone call?

Marc SCHAEFER (schaefer@alphanet.ch)
30 Nov 1998 1920:50:51 +0100


Gilles Labrecque <root@odyssee.net> wrote:
> I'm at home and I share my phone line with the modem ( only one line).
> When I try to make a phone call ( dialing out) the modem answers me and
> plays the welcome message. This cause confusion because at one moment

Are you by any chance using PULSE dialing on your telephone,
instead of DTMF (tone) dialing ?

This can cause some modems to think the line is ringing. I
don't see how this can interact with DTMF delay, though.

> 11/29 11:00:56 yS1  US Robotics voice modem
> 11/29 11:00:56 yS1  This is a driver beta version. V0.4.b3
> 11/29 11:00:56 yS1  VTD setup successful
> 11/29 11:00:57 yS1  waiting...

Can you show the part of the logs *after* the waiting ? If the
modem reports RINGs, well ... it reports RINGS.