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From: clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Argh! Damn! Kick! (Problem with 3B2 uucp)
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.130046.896@cavebbs.gen.nz>
Date: 24 Apr 91 13:00:46 GMT
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ
Lines: 63

System: 3B2/400, 2 x PORTS cards.

I've got a Microcom QX/3296EH on contty at 9600, dialout only. Works fine.
I've got three Netcomm Datalock 1234SA 2400 and one Super 5 V32 across two
PORTS cards. All are used for dialin. One of the 2400s is used to dial out
for Fido polling. All work fine.

My troubles start with one site requiring me to poll them using uucp at
2400bps. I can't use the Microcom; as soon as the 3B2 talks to it at 2400
it locks at that speed and requires a specific command to reset it back to
9600bps. (That sucks; but that is a side issue.)

I tried using the existing modem dialling out on tty12. While the Fido
program has no hassles, uucp just hangs. Uutry aborts as follows:

_Request (TRUE), _Switch (TRUE), _CallBack (FALSE), _MyName (), _Commands rmail
_Commands rnews
chdir(/usr/spool/uucp/wcccomp)
conn(wcccomp)
Device Type Direct wanted
mlock tty12 succeeded
timed out
generic open timeout
set interface UNIX
getto ret -1
Call Failed: CAN'T ACCESS DEVICE
exit code 101
Conversation Complete: Status FAILED

OK, it didn't like the way the modem was set up. I tried a different (spare)
modem on tty14. Same thing. I tried two more spare modems. Same thing. I 
pulled the plug from the Microcom, set contty to 2400bps, and tried through
contty. Same thing.
 
I dumped all the registers and settings of the Microcom and compared it with
the settings of the "spare" modems. All the same. I tried Kermit.

Kermit> set line /dev/tty14
[hang until ctrl-\]
/dev/tty14: Interrupted System Call
 
In desperation, I tried different combinations of RTS/CTS, DSR etc. Still
exactly the same. Still the Microcom works fine on contty but nothing else.
Did someone say RTFM? Well I've read TFM until my eyes grew out on stalks 
and started turning the pages by themselves.
 
Someone, somewhere, must surely have had this problem before. I've already
thrown one modem through the window. I'm debating whether to get the glass
replaced or if I should throw the 3B2 out through it first. If nobody has 
any concrete solution I would very much appreciate any pointers on where
to start looking.

I won't waste bandwidth with entries in the Devices, Dialers, Systems,
inittab and gettydefs files - if you think thats where the problem lies,
let me know and I'll email what I've got.

TIA
One Very Frazzled And Pissed Off Bear
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