Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!milton!ns.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!samsung!nstar!curt From: curt@nstar Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,list.sco Subject: Re: Problems with dialin line Message-ID: <1991Apr16.045443.17738@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 16 Apr 91 04:54:43 GMT References: <1991Apr11.055643.218@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: @nstar.rn.com Organization: Mad Artists' Technological Hangout Lines: 30 To: uunet.UU.NET!sco-list Return-Path: In article gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) writes: > curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: > > >I'm running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 on a 286. I have an NS16550AN on com port > >2. > > > >Recently I tried to dial in to my dialin line and was unable to do > >so. The modem would pick up the phone and connect, and often I would > >get the login prompt, but then the computer would immediately send a > >short string of garbage and hang up. When I tried doing a 'cu -l > >tty2a dir' to check out the modem settings cu would say "Connect" and > >then immediately claim that carrier had been dropped and hang up. > > I don't know whether this applies to Xenix, but according to my > getty man page (ISC UNIX) there is a `-h' switch. If you omit it, > getty will hang up the line just before it sets the baud rate. > This seems to be what is happening to you. Not likely. The line worked perfectly for quite a while, and then had this problem on and off for a week. Then the problem turned itself on permanantly. Rebooting fixed it. I don't think it's shown itself since then. cjs -- | "It is actually a feature of UUCP that the map of curt@cynic.uucp | all systems in the network is not known anywhere." curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca | --Berkeley Mail Reference Manual (Kurt Schoens)