(PM) Stuck Modems on PM2E (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Mon, 8 Jun 1998 17:57:38 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Adam Snodgrass shaped the electrons to say...
>I am curious if anyone has a way to force a modem to reset from the command
>prompt of the PM2E. Occasionally, one of the modems connected to one of my

All you can do is 'reset s#'. That will toggle DTR on the port. If the
modem doesn't reset, chances are it is hosed at that point. Either it is
fritzed or it lost its config and isn't looking at DTR anymore.

You might try attaching to the port to see if the modem can hear AT commands.

-MZ

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