RE: IBM ECS Modem problems

[Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not familiar with this specific modem, but it sounds like it isn't set
up to auto-answer.  It's pretty easy to verify this.

Hook it up to a PC and use Hyperterm/Procomm/Crosstalk, etc. to query
register 0:
ATS0=?

This will tell you how many rings it is set up to answer on.  To change it,
set register 0:
ATS0=1

This will make the modem pick up on the first ring.  Write that setting to
the permanent memory:
AT&W

Then you can move it back to the AS/400 and it should auto answer.  The
PBX's ring voltage pretty much has to match Bell standards or it wouldn't
be able to ring any phones.

Buck Calabro

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Slaugh 
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 3:37 PM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      IBM ECS Modem problems
> 
> We have a customer here that purchased a IBM options modem model
> 7852-400 along with their new AS/400. The problem is that the modem
> doesn't pickup on an incoming ring. Have any of you had this problem? Is
> the customer's PBX's signal strength part of the equation?
> 
> 
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