[Wine] Accessing a Modem / Dial-up telnet connection

[Martin Gregorie]

On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 08:01 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> on Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:53 AM, richearle <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> > Hi Mr newbie here.  Using 32-bit Ubuntu 11.10 and Wine 1.3.28. I have installed a Creative PCI Modem and that works well
> > as /dev/modem from things like putty.  I've done the link ln -s /dev/modem ~/.wine/dosdevices/com6 so it's now my com6 within
> > wine.  However, using teraterm the response from the modem is bitty and slow and pretty useless.  If I do something like AT\r the
> > OK\r does come back but very slowly. I can make it dial a number but you cant see the connect or login message properly and you
> > cant use it.
> 
> Isn't there a native Linux dial-up terminal program?
> 
Minicom is part of the Fedora distro and probably others too. Its a good
enough serial comms program though I don't know about its dialler
because I've never needed it.

Then, of course, there's Kermit, the most flexible and powerful of the
lot. It works as both a dial-up and telnet terminal, can emulate several
types of terminal and does file transfers if there's a copy of Kermit at
the remote end. Its available for most operating systems. You can get it
from here, http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html
but the OP will probably need to compile it himself, usually a
straight-forward process.


Martin