[ale] can't get modem to respond...

[Alfred Grahame Leach]

I've gotten modems working on other Linux boxes, but I can't get it going 
on mine.  The problem, I think, is that my hardware is configured 
somewhat strangely - using com3 and IRQ7.  I ran setserial like:
	setserial /dev/cua2 irq 7 (I think this was the syntax I used)
but I still can't seem to get things going.  I'm trying to use minicom to 
control the modem (and sometimes kermit from within minicom).  Isn't 
there a way to send commands to the modem without using these (I think I 
did this once, but I forget how - using "echo 'ATDT' > /dev/cua2" doesn't 
cut it...).  Is there some database that I need to change to reflect my 
hardware configuration?  Where is the setserial configuration information 
stored?  Anybody have any suggestions on how to attack this?

TIA

- Al

  +-----------------------+----------------------------+-------------------+
  | Al Leach              |  Georgia Tech              | Sailing is:       |
  | Graduate Student      |  College of Computing      |  hours and hours  |
  | MS, CS/Networking     |  Atlanta, GA 30332         |  of boredom,      |
  +-----------------------+----------------------------|  punctuated by    |
  | email: aleach at cc.gatech.edu                        |  moments of sheer |
  | WWW: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/aleach   |  stark terror...  |
  +----------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
  |     < Georgia Tech - Olympic Village of the 1996 Summer Olympics >     |
  +----------------------------------------------------+-------------------+