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From: urban@cbnewsl.att.com (john.urban)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SVR4 (i386) serial port setup
Keywords: SVR4, bidirectional, serial port, modem
Message-ID: <1991May8.172714.1412@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 8 May 91 17:27:14 GMT
References: <1991May8.153108.21313@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1991May8.153108.21313@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mandel@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Hector Mandel) writes:
>I have been trying to set up a modem on my system with limited success.  I
>am running UHC SVR4 on an i386 machine.  Setting up the port monitor or
>the old uugetty stuff in /etc/inittab works fine for incoming connections
>to the modem on my serial port.  I can dial in and connect, login etc. with
>no problem.  HOWEVER, if I set up basic networking and try to call *out*
>using cu, it doesn't work.  I've tried disabling the port monitor and
>setting up the port for outbound dialing only by configuring Dialers,
>Systems and Devices files, but it still won't work.  cu returns a message
>saying "CAN'T ACCESS DEVICE". 

Do you get this message with ttymon running on this port -OR- with uugetty
running on this port ?

Did this exact hardware configuration work on AT&T SVR3.2.2 ?

Sincerely,

John Ben Urban

>
>When I called UHC tech support, I was told that this is a bug in the ATT 
>source code that they have been trying to fix since January.  My main
>objective in posting this is to find out if this is indeed the case or if
>anyone out there has managed to get this to work with either Dell's or
>UHC's SVR4.
>