Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!oucsace!csachs From: csachs@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Colin Sachs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Modem picks up fone (response) Summary: Communications package problems perhaps? Message-ID: <728@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> Date: 18 Aug 89 00:52:46 GMT References: <1222@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens Lines: 18 >> /* ---------- "modem picks up phone" ---------- */ >> When my pc-clone is powered up, my 2400 baud hayes-compatible >> modem insists on picking up the phone (hoping to get a carrier). > My next-door neighbor is having the same problem with an old Leading Edge > machine. His internal 1200bd seizes the phone line. We've tried every > DIP switch combination we can think of, ... Some software communcations packages allow for autoanswer disable/enable that can be stored in nonvolitile ram or registers on your modem... Are they Hayes or Hayes compatables? Try setting S0=0 and using the &W command to save the configuration change. If the modems came with documentation, they must have something about this problem in them. -- Colin Sachs - csachs@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu "I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred." -the Chink