Yes, exactley, it does dial and then it reports a loss of dial tone.
Unfortunately there is no audible clue to whats going on, only whats on
the terminal screen. I don't understand how it could lose a dialtone in
this manner. The phone works fine otherwise.
What appears is basically this:
D 555-1212
555-1212
Ring
Ring
No dial
weird
Colan
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Sam Ismail wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Colan Mitchell wrote:
>
> > I have an Informer terminal (emulates vt100) that seems to be working
> > o.k. except that when I dial out It rings once, twice, rarely three times
> > and then reports no dial tone. The phone chord is fine. I thought that
>
> Well, if its supposed to be looking for dialtone, then why is the line
> ringing up to three times? Unless you're saying it actually does dial the
> number, then the line rings a couple times, then the modem returns a
> response of "NO DIALTONE"?
>
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