[HLUG] silencing my dialup modem

[box lawrence]

if i remember correctly most if not all modems use the
hayes "at" set.

i think at atl0 will turn off the speaker

http://www.cellular.co.za/hayesat.htm

gives a full listing

box

--- j michaelson <jmichaelson at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi matt,
> 
> i did wonder if there was some way i could control
> the volume from the
> pc, but i couldn't see anything in the ubuntu
> network settings menu so
> i gave up. i s'pose i could have looked into the
> command line stuff,
> but to be honest i kind of wanted to take the modem
> apart and have a
> rummage anyway.  :-)
> 
> i'm interested in activating and deactivating the
> internet from the
> command line. the gui menu doesn't really give me
> any idea what's
> going on, hopefully the command line way would be
> more informative.
> any idea how it's done?
> 
> if i could connect from the command line i could
> build it into scripts
> so that my pc could connect to the internet, do
> stuff and then
> disconnect. if i set this up as a cron job i could
> get my pc to use
> the phone line when everyone else was asleep and the
> phone line was
> free. this would be something cool to play around
> with.
> 
> john.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/28/06, Matt Rhys-Roberts
> <matt.rhys-roberts at q-par.com> wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > A very effective step! I suppose the modem command
> codes for controlling
> > speaker volume must vary wildly between models,
> therefore volume control
> > isn't always available in the modem's onscreen
> control panel.
> >
> > cheers
> > Matt
> >
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