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From: gm@germal.han.de (Gerald Malitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Modem Woes
Message-ID: <18f6e32b.ARN086f@germal.han.de>
Date: 10 Apr 91 13:33:15 GMT
References: <1991Apr5.122933.1@watt.ccs.tuns.ca>
Organization: Gerald Malitz, Privat
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In article <1991Apr5.122933.1@watt.ccs.tuns.ca>, macauslandr@watt.ccs.tuns.ca writes:

> I recently purchaed an A500 and am having serious problems getting
> my modem to work on it (it's your standard hayes compatibles with rs232
> connections).  I borrowed a serial cable from a friend who has a 1000
> and plugged it into the back of the machine and ran a couple modem
> programs (NComm and Access) neither of which recognizes that there
> is anything modem like attached to the computer (NComm says 'modem
> not responding' - Access says nothing at all)  I assume that i should be able
> to enter straight hayes commands in either of these programs, however, 
> nothing I type is echoed to the screen or the modem (none of the lights
> flash which would give some hint that something is getting through)  A friend
> mentions that i might be missing some files from the /lib directory on
> my startup disk (I have a 20Mb drive).  Any ideas as to what they might
> be?  Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated...

Hey, if you plugged your friends serial cable into your A500 you
must have plugged into the paralell port! Of course thet doesn't
work. At A1000 the serial port is female, the paralell one is
male. The A500 and also the A2000 have it the other way around.
You have to get your own cable for the A500.
 
Regards, Gerald.

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