... what's the matter with issuing an ATZ (or other) command to the modem and waiting for an OK, or a timeout to occur?
Well, that'd be my question - what's the command line util. to do that? I've only ever found minicom in the past, and it's interactive.
-- [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [neil@fnx ~]# exit