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- From: John McKay <jmckay05@jmckay.seanet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,demon.tech.modems,tw.bbs.comp.modem
- Subject: Re: Problem of USRobotics Sporter modems
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 05:27:16 GMT
- Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA
- Message-ID: <4hr4rk$7pe@kaleka.seanet.com>
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- peter@mail.linkease.com.tw (Peter Chu) writes:
- > lamn@cs.cuhk.hk (Lam N) wrote:
- >
- > >We are using quite a number of USRobotics Sportster modems. All of them
- > >are connected to SUN SparcStation 5 by serial cable with same software
- > >settings. The OS is SunOS 4.1.4. Some of them works fine, but the others
- > >have a number of different problems.
- >
- > >Cases:
- > >1. It doesn't answer the phone.
- > If you wand to set auto answer, turn off the DIP 5.
- > >2. It answers the phone, after a while of "bi zi" sound, it drops the
- > >line.
- > >3. It answers the phone and connects to each other. But it hangs up
- > >after the message "CONNECT XXXXX".
- > If this condition occured after the power on for long time. It maybe
- > some problems. Please connect your resalers.
- > >4. After the connections, the login prompt shows up repeatly. The lights
- > >of 'CD' and 'RD' are frashing and all the others turn on.
- > Please describe clearly.
- >
- > Nick SHIH
- >
- You are not alone! We use them also, and on of the things we
- have noticed, it doesen' matter what operating system or comm program
- being use, that you need to connect two times, because the first
- attempt does its cat call then nothing. STRANGE
-