modems in OSX

[tech at paynesparkman.com]

It comes back with nothing.  I assume this is because according to the system profiler there are no serial ports on this machine - just 2 USB ports.  It's good to know about 
that function though - thanks.

Rich
Payne Sparkman Mfg.
http:\\www.paynesparkman.com 

>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.

>> 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? 
>> 
>> >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.