[ale] Modem identification and connecting

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

Sounds like the modem is dead or maybe has some crud on the board. Try an
electric cleaner spray.
On Nov 9, 2013 3:47 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> I'm tinkering with a cardbus modem I found in one of my hardware piles
> (I'm still missing the actual cable but I know I have it here
> somewhere).  Anyway, I'm trying to figure out the best way to see if
> it's working (eg, responding to AT commands) but I can't quite seem to
> get minicom to talk to it.  It's not a winmodem as far as I know.
> According to dmesg, the pcmcia system sees the card, then serial_cs sees
> the card and identifies it as a 16550A sittign on IRQ 3 0x3e8.  It
> eventually gets assigned to /dev/ttyS2.
>
> So far nothing seems out of the ordinary but I just can't seem to get it
> to respond to any basic commands (not even plain AT for which I should
> see OK).  I know the cardbus system is working because I also have a
> wireless network card in there and that's working fine.
>
> Ideas for probing and testing the modem?
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