Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!uokmax!servalan!rmtodd From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: How Does Mail Work? (Also, modems, cables, telebits, etc.) Message-ID: <1990Nov10.000004.13226@servalan.uucp> Date: 10 Nov 90 00:00:04 GMT References: <1990Nov9.131746.26483@panix.uucp> Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks Lines: 53 alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes: >So far, a telebit is the _only_ modem I've managed to make work with A/UX >consistently over long periods. I've been experimenting with several >different sorts of 2400bps modems for the last two weeks and they're >driving me up a wall!!! I'm beginning to suspect that there may be some >flaw in A/UX, although I'm at a loss to explain how. What I do know is that >I've seen strange behavior that should be impossible, which goes away when >I reboot. On the other hand, some behavior is more persistent (and annoying!). What sort of behavior are you seeing? I'm sort of curious. For several months I started out using a rather mutant 2400bps modem (Concord Data Systems, if you must know--not even making any pretense at being Hayes compat) and had no problems using it, though I was at the time only using it for dial-out. After the 2400bps modem died due to lightning (they put the Nat'l Severe Storms Lab in Norman, OK for very good reasons :-), I used a 1200bps generic Hayes-clone modem (the "Smart Duck" they used to sell in the DAK catalogs, for those of you who remember those) for a while until I scraped together the cash for a T1000. Again, no problems with dialout. I now use a T1000 for dialin and dialout with no problems. >If you want to dial out with A/UX, you'll have to do a "stty -n /dev/ttyxx > -modem", but I think telecom is that last thing on earth I'd want to do with >A/UX. Use a Mac app instead- I think all the standard ones work fine with >A/UX. Well, I don't know what the "standard" Mac apps for telecom are, but I tried Zterm and it failed miserably--claimed all serial ports were busy. Me, my favorite telecom program was always ProComm for the PC, so I get along well with Emmet Gray's Pcomm program (ProComm clone for Unix). Let me know if a) you want the config files, etc. for compiling under A/UX or b) you know where I can track down more recent patches for Pcomm than patchlevel 4... >>Do the Telebits work well at 2400 baud. (The main campus modem >>pool is 2400 and less. >They have no problem, and speak MNP up to 5 (older ones up to 4, I think). I've never had any problem using the T1000 to call 2400bps modems either. I think the T1000 only goes up to MNP4; at least my (1-year-old) one does. >Now it's my turn to cry for help. If anyone can tell me what's wrong with >my modems, I'll be very grateful. Help!!! Tell us more about your setup (config files, gettytab/inittab settings), and I'm sure the Usenet readership will be glad to offer opinions. Some of them may even be correct :-). -- Richard Todd rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us rmtodd@servalan.uucp Only 1 More Day Until The Season Premiere of WISEGUY!