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From: john@bby-bc.UUCP (john)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: advice on modems wanted please
Message-ID: <164@bby-bc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 22:21:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 22:21:02 1987
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> |  I have just spent a couple of disappointing days trying to get a
> |  2400baud modem working with my Microport system.
> |  						       ... the major
> |  problem seemed to be that right after making a connection with an
> |  incoming call it would drop CD while it transmitted it's connect
> |  message and this would cause getty to die.
> +----
> 
> Try turning the modem's local echo off.  If you are using the new dialer

It is off - the problem was CD being dropped.  This is on dial in's not when
the machine is dialing out.  It put a little prog. in front of getty to sit
and wait for "CONNECT..." before letting getty start and this worked fine
but it then turned out the modem would not always go on hook when the
remote modem dropped it's carrier - when in this state it would also not
list en to any commands or attempts to return it to command state, i.e. it
was effectively hung.

> (state machine in /usr/lib/uucp/dialinfo) it gets confused when the modem
> echos the "ATDTxxx-xxxx".  Either that, or expand the dialinfo file to handle

While on the subject of dialinfo - does anyone know how to get it to set the
line's parity to cs7 parenb -parodd?  It claims that C1 will "switch the parity
and character length (presumably from the cs8 and -parenb it starts with) but
this does not seem to be the case - I would like uucp to be able to dial
up a host that uses cs7 parenb -parodd (or does uucp insist on cs8?) ?

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> John Plocher uwvax!geowhiz!uwspan!plocher  plocher%uwspan.UUCP@uwvax.CS.WISC.EDU

Thanks for the attempt at help John, I appreciate it.  So far I have been
told that USR 2400 internal & external modems and the Multitech 224E work
fine with microport so I shall probably try one of these.  Any other modem
recommendations (particularily for microport SysV) are most welcome.


john

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