modemtest(1p)

modemtest1p

Tool to examining your modem through perl's device::serialport

Usage

modemtest [OPTS] [DEVICE [BAUD [DATA [PARITY [STOP [FLOW]]]]]]

DEVICE Device to use as a serial port (default: "/dev/modem")

BAUD Serial speed to use (default: 9600)

DATA Number of databits to use (default: 8)

PARITY Type of parity to use (default: "none")

STOP Number of stop bits to use (default: 1)

FLOW Kind of flow control to use (default: "none") -h, --help Help report --skip-status Skip modem status bit tests --hide-possible Don't show all possible settings

Overview

Some systems, serial ports, and modem behave in strange ways. To test the capabilities of Perl's Device::SerialPort, this tool queries the system settings for the given DEVICE, and attempts to set up the port and send the initialization string "ATE1" to the modem, reporting the results seen.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 5.0–6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13
  9. Arch

Author

Kees Cook <[email protected]>.

From perl-device-serialport 1.04-22 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.