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From: connie@psych.Stanford.EDU (Constance Stillinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.ultrix
Subject: How to dial out from DS3100
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Date: 29 Mar 90 01:15:24 GMT
Sender: connie@psych.Stanford.EDU (Constance Stillinger)
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Since a zillion people have asked me for this info, I am posting it.
Comments and corrections are most welcome!

Here's what I finally did in order to dial out from my ds3100 with a
2400 bps hayes-compatible modem.  The section of the manual that tells
you what to do is (obviously...??) "Guide to the UUCP Utility" (in
System Management vol. 3).

    >>>> I just don't have the faintest idea how to configure things
    to enable dial-INS, however.  Anyone who has been able to do this,
    pleeeeze email me! <<<<


1. Bought cable and adaptor from DEC (cable BC16E-10 -- the "10"
signifies the length in feet -- and adaptor H8571-C).  The adaptor has
a pair of superfluous attachment posts that I snapped off easily with
a pair of pliers (otherwise it wouldn't plug in to the modem).


2. With the "Guide to UUCP" in my lap, I then ran "uucpsetup," which
evidently moved /dev/tty00 to /dev/ttyd1 and created a line in
/etc/ttys, which I had to edit further to read:

ttyd1 "/etc/getty S2400"  dialup  off  modem  shared # oldname=tty00,hayes

    This supposedly (a) tells init to do a getty on ttyd1 searching for
    the S2400 entry [2400-baud rotary] in /etc/gettytab, (b) says the
    terminal attached to it is a vt100 [maybe unnecessary], (c) disables
    logins [when I set the line to "on" instead, I got an "all ports busy"
    message when I tried to dial out], (d) enables modem control [maybe
    unnecessary], and (d) says the line can be used for both incoming and
    outgoing calls (?).

    (after you make these changes, you have to do kill -1 1 in order to
    rescan the ttys file)


3. chmod 666 /etc/ttyd1   (uucpsetup probably already did this for me)

4. Checked /var/uucp/L-devices to verify that it contained the
following line:

ACU     ttyd1 ttyd1 2400 hayes


5. In /etc/remote, I created an entry that looks like this:

con2400|my 2400 baud:\
	:dv=/dev/ttyd1:br#2400:at=hayes

    This entry is used by tip (which you will use to actually dial out),
    telling it that (a) the modem device is at /dev/ttyd1, (b) the baud
    rate is 2400, and (c) to look in /etc/acucap for capabilities of the
    hayes modem.  I did not change the hayes entry in /etc/acucap.


6. Then back at csh prompt, "tip con2400", which should respond with
"connected (/dev/ttyd1)", whereupon you can type AT commands to
the modem.


Connie

Constance Stillinger
connie@psych.stanford.edu  (Now of Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL)
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