Testing whether you can dial out

Having established that you can send commands to the modem, follow these steps to test whether you can dial out to another site:

1. Enable the modem's speaker so you can hear it dial out and connect:
   
   ATM2

   (Use ATM0 to turn it off.)

2. Enter the following modem command:
   
   ATDTphone_number

   (This assumes that the connection can use tone dialing. Use the ATDP command for pulse dialing.)

3. Having confirmed that the modem can dial out, exit cu by entering:
   
   ~.

4. Dial into the other system using the appropriate modem control port, for example:
   
   cu -x 9 -l term/00m phone_number

   The -x 9 option generates useful debugging information.

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   NOTE: Use dashes in the telephone number to indicate a pause while dialing. Do not use the comma (,) from the Hayes command set.

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5. If the connection is successful and logging in is allowed on the remote machine, you should see a login prompt.