modems in OSX

[Ken Ray]

You could try getting 'the driverNames' and 'open driver' and see if
that helps, but it says in the docs "serial port drivers", so I'm not
sure if it would work with USB.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> tech at paynesparkman.com
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 7:29 AM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: modems in OSX
> 
> 
> This is what I've been doing with success on pre-OSX OSs.  It 
> does not work on an external USB modem connected to a G4 
> running OS 9.1.  I assume this is because the 
> external USB modem is referred to by a specific name provided 
> by its driver rather then "MODEM".  Since the iBook has an 
> internal USB modem, I'm wondering if I have the 
> same problem and that I've hit a dead end since MetaCard 
> doesn't support  USB.  The article I cited gave me hope 
> because it says that the OSX modem driver works the 
> same regardless of the hardware.  Any other suggestions?
> 
> Rich mooney
> Payne Sparkman Mfg.
> http:\\www.paynesparkman.com 
> 
> >That article explains how to use the low-level commands from the 
> >operating system...MetaCard is already doing all of this 
> stuff for you! 
> >Have you tried just opening the modem port? I haven't tried 
> this in OSX 
> >(or any newer Mac hardware that doesn't have physical ports) so I am 
> >not sure what the behavior will be...
> >
> >  set the serialControlString to "BAUD=57600 PARITY=N DATA=8 
> STOP=1"  
> > open file "MODEM:"  write "ATZ" to file "MODEM:"
> >
> > ##-- see if you get a response
> >
> >  read from file "MODEM:" until EOF       ##-- or RETURN
> >  put it
> >
> >(unless I am totally misunderstanding the idea of the 'driver' 
> >function...I was never able to get that to work with anything)
> >
> >let us know what you find...
> >
> >JR
> 
> >> Does anyone know how to initialize, write to and read from 
> a modem on 
> >> an
> >iBook running OSX?  I've tried using the info at this link:
> >> http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Devices/Devices-315.html
> >> but, no dice.   I'm trying to do it with the 2.4.3 engine.
> 
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