happymaan

I'm running win2000 and I have an internal modem on com3. I want to be able to send it commands via the command prompt.

I thought I could do this by simply doing:

echo ata>com3

but that's not working. I get a responce when enter the command within hyperterminal, but nothing from the command prompt.

What am I doing wrong?

thanks

-happymaan

saltfish

Try,

ECHO >COM3 ATA

ECHO >COM3 AT&F^M (TO RESET)

Lemme know if it works.

-SF

happymaan

No, nothing happens....but thanks.

-happymaan

saltfish

Is this a WinModem? Are your interrupts ok?



I plugged in an old external on com2 and it's taking commands the way I described previously...

remember, command prompt commands are one direction, if you sent it a command, you will not get a text response back.

-SF

JohnnyRoyale

Try this:

1. Turn the modem speaker up (modem properties in control panel)
2. open a command prompt & type:
echo adtd > com1
(note: this may need to be com2 or com3 depending on what your modem's com port is)

do you hear a dial tone?

Also, if you're looking for a command line dialer, check into rasdial, it's a dialier for the command line that's built in to XP (pretty sure it's on 2k, too.)

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happymaan

It's really weird. When I load hyptertermial to send command to com3 it works fine. I've been sending it the ATA command which should make it pick up the line and screech like hell...but that only happens within hyperternimal.

echo ANYTHING >com3 does nothing. The modem doesn't even pick up the phone.

By the way, the reason I want to get a command line dialer is I live in a pt. complex where you need to be able to buzz people in through the front door, but my desk phone is a rotary. So I want a way to dial 5 then 9 from my command prompt.

The modem is Broadxent DSI V.92 PCI DI3631, and eveything about it works the command line dialing.

JohnnyRoyale

Then you should definitely checkout the rasdialer command. open a command prompt and type

rasdial /?

Setup a network connection to do a dial up connection. set the phone number to 5,,,9 which is a five, a pause, then a 9. Once you have the dial up connection available, you can run:

rasdial test

where test is the name, then

rasdial test /hangup

rasdial will read the phone & modem info for you. Simply add the lines to a command file, and your done.

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saltfish

Have you tried tried to use:

ECHO >COM3 ATDT 5,,9

This should open the line then dial 5 <pause> 9.

Also, you could create a batch file:

Filename: Door.bat
-------------------------
ECHO >COM3 ATZ
REM MODEM INIT

ECHO >COM3 ATDT 5,,9
REM OPEN PORT, SEND DIAL COMMAND 5 <PAUSE> 9

------------------

-SF

P.S. If the ATDT does work via echo, then you could put this bat file somewhere, and create an icon on your desktop that could simply be double-clicked to dial the 5 9.

PPS. You may have to add a manual CR to the end of the echo files.

Before:
ECHO >COM3 ATZ
ECHO >COM3 ATDT 5,,9

After:

ECHO >COM3 ATZ^M
ECHO >COM3 ATDT 5,,9^M


Sending a command to a modem may leave it in the buffer if the command isn't 'ended'. '^M' is the equivalent of hitting return after a command.

PPPS Sometimes you may need to put quotes around your command.

Such as:

ECHO >COM3 "ATDT 5,,9^M"

Now, if your modem is set to tone, you're ok. If you modem is set to pulse, you have to either RESET the modem with AT&F after the ATZ, or create an INIT string"


DOOR.BAT
--------------
ECHO >COM3 ATZ^M
ECHO >COM3 AT&F^M
ECHO >COM3 ATDT 5,,9^M


Lemme Know..

happymaan

Thanks for all the help, but using the echo command (with all the varibles you gave me) does nothing. I hit enter and just get the command prompt again, and the modem does nothing.

I was able to get it working using rasdial, but I still wonder why the echo commands are not working.