CUPS printing and faxing problem

Stephen Liu satimis at icare.com.hk
Thu May 15 10:42:05 CEST 2003


Hi Matthias,

Further to my last posting in response to your advice.

RH 8.0
KDE desktop
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On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 03:34, Matthias Posseldt wrote:

> On Wednesday 14 May 2003 17:18, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > On terminal window
> > As ROOT
> > # echo ath1 > /dev/modem
> > # echo ath0 > /dev/modem
> > (no response)
> 
> You won't get a response here if you don't use a terminal *program* like 
> minicom or similar. This is because you sent a command to the modem but don't 
> listen to responses so this information gets lost somewhere.

'minicom' has been installed on my OS

# rpm -qa|grep minicom
minicom-2.00.0-6
# which minicom
# service minicom status
minicom: unrecognized service

Kindly advise how to make use 'minicom' to test
# echo ath1 > /dev/modem
# echo ath0 > /dev/modem

Thanks

B.Regards
Stephen



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