Dial tone problems

[Dave Hall]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:23 +1000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> 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).

IIRC it is AT3DT<number> (it has been a long time since I used an old
14.4 modem which wouldn't recognise an Australian dialtone, so I needed
that hack).