On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John R. Sheets wrote: > On Wednesday, August 16, 2000, Andrew Nemchenko <drew at usfamily.net> wrote: > > Go To Best Buy and Get a Lucent Technologies PCI Actionteck modem with > > call waiting. This modem Is specifically designed to work in linux. I > > bought it and from the very first day I put it in and followed the > > instruction mannual on its installation, It has worked like a charm > > and not given me one error or problem not even one. I highly recomend > > it. It goes for around $45 at least the last time I saw one. > > What was that about call waiting? Does that mean the modem will handle > call waiting interruptions gracefully? Anything to do with that new > V.92 (or whatever it was called) standard that's supposed to land in > September? All modems can handle call waiting gracefully - you just need to adjust the S10 register in the modem to a longer timeout (ATS10=X). You'll get a couple of bad packets, but your connection will stay up. AFAIK, the only "call-waiting" enhancement that new modems do is either 1. ignore the call waiting tone, or 2. use a different default for S10. Also, any phone line can disable call waiting for the duration of a phone call by adding either a 1170 or *70 to the front of the dial string. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ______ _ __ "If you don't have the freedom to use what you / ' ) ) own - then you do not own anything." / o ______ / / _ . . No apologies to Jack Valenti or the MPAA / <_/ / / < / (_</_(_/_ -- tneu at visi.com / http://www.visi.com/~tneu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org