Dial tone problems

[Stephen Boyd]

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 14:58 +0930, squareyes wrote:
> Hi all,
> have a friend who is now trying Ubuntu, but is having dial tone problems.
> He has a Telstra pre-paid service, and needs to be able to turn off Dial 
> tone before
> the modem (external) will allow connection, something to do with the 
> "Prepaid" service.
> Anyone have any clues I could pass on to him?
> Many thanks in advance.
> Take Care
> Winton
> 
IIRC the trick is to send an extra ATX command to the modem after the
reset etc stuff.  Check your modem documentation (or if that fails try a
standard Hayes one).

Stephen.