Two modems on one line????

[A1ex]

Jim Cheetham wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:48 -0500, A1ex wrote:
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>>I hope you can follow this.....No success with either a parallel or 
>>series connection.  I tried the series connection both ways,  phone line 
>>to the external modem then  phone line to the internal  modem  with the 
>>other modem connected to telephone auxiliary outlet of the directly 
>>connected modem .
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>OK, it looks like you modems' phone sockets are not doing what you want
>- so ignore them.
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>Get a telephone double-socket device, and plug moth modems into that,
>and the double-socket into your wall socket. Much joy should follow.
>
>(The telephone double-socket is not a computer device, it will be sold
>my anyone that sells telephones)
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Tried that, no joy --internal integrated modem produces error 680--no 
dial tone, external modem works OK.   Integrated modem works OK when 
external modem is disconnected.

For some reason, the external modem seems to prevent the internal modem 
from generating a dial tone.in any configuration.