Yes the man sucks.

I have been trying to dial a phone number for almost 3 hours now and have got nowhere. I know my modem works because I can dial using minicom. But getting this dang Device::SerialPort to actually do something is yet to be seen. Hey I might as well post the code in case someone else can spot the obvious.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Device::SerialPort qw( :PARAM :STAT 0.07 );

$PortName = '/dev/ttyS1';
$Configuration_File_Name = 'phone.conf';

$PortObj = new Device::SerialPort ($PortName) || die "Can't open $PortName: $!\n";
$PortObj->user_msg(ON);
$PortObj->databits(8);
$PortObj->baudrate(9600);
$PortObj->parity("none");
$PortObj->stopbits(1);
$PortObj->handshake("rts");
$PortObj->write_settings || undef $PortObj;
$PortObj->save($Configuration_File_Name);


$PortObj->write("ATDT5010005");
$PortObj->close || die "failed to close";
undef $PortObj; # frees memory back to perl

print "help\n";

__END__

In reply to RE: RE: Re: perl + modem by Anonymous Monk
in thread perl + modem by Anonymous Monk

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