Re: AST Gridpad 2390 and Modems

Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~} (rdong@math.uci.edu)
Thu, 11 May 95 20:22 PDT

>>>>> On Tue, 9 May 95 20:35 PDT, sai@wv.MENTORG.COM (Sai Ramamoorthy x3056) said:

sai> I am a new user of the Zoomer and I have a 486 PC with an internal
sai> modem on COM4.

sai> I am very curious to try the communications through the Zoomer
sai> without buying a PCMCIA or an external modem. Is it anyways possible
sai> for me to use the internal modem on my PC to dial out through the
sai> zoomer assuming I have the relevant commn software running on the
sai> zoomer.

I have limited success on my 486 Linux machine. I run GETTY on the serial
port and specify KERMIT as the login program. I got my Zoomer to dial AOL
through the internal modem, but it just hangs afterwards. I guess that I
just don't really understand unix line disciplines yet.

Regards,

Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~} Department of Mathematics
rdong@math.uci.edu University of California
(714)824-3897(O) (714)824-7993(Fax) Irvine, CA 92717-3875