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- From: jbwl@umich.edu (Jonathan BW Leonard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Sparc5/Solaris 2.4/Hayes Accura 144 modem
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 21:50:36 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan
- Distribution: inet
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- Summary: modem, cable, workstation good separately, bad together
- Keywords: sparc solaris hayes modem
-
- I'm trying to get a serial port working for dial-in on my Sparc5 under
- Solaris 2.4 with a Hayes Accura 144 modem. As soon as the workstation
- is powered on (even _before_ it starts to boot!) the send and receive
- data leds on the modem come on solid. Needless to say, this isn't a
- very useful setup.
-
- Unfortunately, every part of the setup works individually. I hook the
- modem up to a Mac or PC and it works. I hook the Mac up to my
- workstation with a null modem cable and it works. I've tried three
- different cables (two 25-pin straight, one 9-pin straight) to connect
- the workstation to the modem, none works. If I stick any of these cables
- into the Mac-to-workstation setup, it does work.
-
- I've tried both serial ports on the workstation with the same result.
- (That's not a big surprize.) I've tried a variety of eeprom settings:
- ttyx-ignore-cd=true and false
- ttyx-rts-dtr-off=true and false
- ttyx-mode=several speeds, bit, parity, and flow control options
-
- It's fair to say that I'm stumped: the whole is distinctly less than the
- sum of its parts.
-
- Any ideas?
-
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