[ltp] Mwave Modem Monitor

[Mike Taylor]

> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:35:59 -0400
> From: Charles E Taylor IV <tomalek@mindspring.com>
> 
> > I don't seem to be able to get its modem noises monitored through
> > the TP speakers (although that works fine from Win95).  If I talk
> > to minicom, I can say ATM1 to it, to which it replies (of course)
> > "OK", but I still don't hear anything when I ATDT.
>  
> > Anyone have the same problem?
> 
> Ditto.  I never found a solution to it for either of my two 600s
> running Redhat 7.3, but then again i never really tried that hard.
> Once I set up a modem, I tend to turn the speaker off anyway.
> 
> Oddly enough, the modem made noise *one time*.  I couldn't reproduce
> it, though.

Weird.  I emailed Paul Schroeder of IBM's Linux Technology Center
about this, and his response was that it Just Worked for him and
always has!  (It's on his suggestion that I mailed this list.)

> Does it have something to do with the sound card's mixer settings?

No.  I always have the mixer up loud so I can hear my MP3s.

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