RE: 7852-400 Modem

["Leland, David" <dleland@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is encouraging.  Would you be willing to share your line &
controller descriptions with me, as well as your modem switch settings?

Thanks,
Dave

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>From:  Neil Palmer[SMTP:NPalmer@NxTrend.com]
>Sent:  Tuesday, July 29, 1997 8:01 PM
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:       Re: 7852-400 Modem
>
>Leland, David wrote:
>> 
>> Is anyone using one of the new 7852-400 modems for autodialing?  We had
>> one of the old 5853's (2400 baud), and when you varied on it's line and
>> controller, it would automatically dial the number in the controller
>> description.  Can't get this new modem to do that even though we've
>> carried over the configuration descriptions from the old modem.
>> 
>
>We have two on an AS/400 here in the office, and about 15 customers
>with
>them.  No problems although I never had any controllers that specified 
>DIALINIT(*IMMED).
>
>You post, and another one I read in the last few days complaining of a
>similar problem, prompted me to do a test, and I found that they DO
>dial
>out when you vary on the controller when DIALINIT(*IMMED) is specified.
>
>Now because of other problems with these modems (some incompatibility
>problems, particularly with connection to 7857 modems or 7855 modems at
>speeds above 9600bps, and intermittent problems when the modem would
>not
>reset properly after a disconnection and would 'hang' until you did a
>power off/on) I did have them all updated to the latest firmware level,
>which I believe is flash level 3.15c.  So you may want to check the
>firmware level on your modem, and get an update from IBM if necessary.
>
>
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