[Gllug] reduce modem volume?

[Dermot Moynihan]

Thanks Walid (and John and Sean) for your suggestions.
After a lot of footering and wailing (on the part of the modem - not me)
I got that sorted. And I did some more homework :) In the configuring the 
modem screen I tried the suggestions and other stuff. Adding L0 gave me "bad 
init string". It certainly shut the modem up though :)
Went into /etc/wvdial.conf and tried L0 there.  Still the same. (so much for 
the manual). Finally, still in that file, removed ATZ (the first command) and 
replaced it with ATM0 and that seems to do the trick. Though it seems to take 
longer to make the connection.
Mind you, half the bloody time, I have to wait ages for Kmail to go off and do 
it's thing - most of the time it comes back with a 'host not found' message. 
Anyway, that's been ongoing (though more frequent since I installed the 
firewall that came with the SUSE distro yesterday) and certainly nothng to do 
with the question I posed which has been well sorted. 

That suggestion re. the headphone jack is brillant :) Never occurred to me.
Thanks again everybody,
Dermot

On Sunday 24 November 2002 11:52, Walid Shaari wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 11:42, Dermot Moynihan wrote:
> > I have a very loud external modem which screeches like a banshee.
> > My PC is in my bedroom. I'm not alone.  I fear I will be if this carries
> > on for much longer :)
> > I've put Google thru' it's paces and found nothing.
> > I've been through my manual over and over. Lots on windows; zilch on
> > Linux. I did find a reference in the command section to:
> >
> > Ln   2 (Data mode)
> >
> > and then different options for the volume i.e.
> >
> > n =0  low speaker volume
> > n = 1 low speaker volume
> > n = 2 medium speaker volume
> > n = 3 high speaker volume
> >
> > So, I presume I enter L0 somewhere. But where?
> > Is there a configuration file for the modem hiding somewhere?
> >
> > I've got SUSE 8.1 and use wvdial.
>
> I haven't used a modem for a long time now, but you are right about the
> wvdial configuration file /etc/wvdial.conf, from there you can set the
> volume either by
> SetVolume = 1
>
> or specify the appropraite modme command in the Init string such as
>
> Init2 = ATZ&L0
>
> now, you still need to do a bit of homework and verify the above :)
>
> Walid


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