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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: SDL problems with new Courier modems
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 12:06:13 -0400
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4l5p9l$o0c@hopi.gate.net>
- References: <4kj6e1$jjn@chagall.cti-software.nl> <4klkb3$eb@news1.mnsinc.com> <4l4e8m$968@sam.inforamp.net>
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- Geoffrey Welsh (crs0794@inforamp.net) wrote:
- : In article <4klkb3$eb@news1.mnsinc.com>, mintz@mnsinc.com (Larry Mintz) wrote:
- : >Pim Zandbergen (pim@chagall.cti-software.nl) wrote:
- : >: Has anyone else encountered this problem ? Is there a fix somewhere ?
- : >
- : >Yes. The modem's baud rate *must* be allowed to float during the SDL
- : >download into the modem's flash ROM. The handshake requires it, as part
- : >of the testing to see if the modem is functioning correctly.
- :
- : This is built into the SDL program and I know of no way to disable it. The
- : SDL program allows you to specify the bps rate for the download (run "SDL -?"
- : for fun some time) and this fellow's use of that option probably has nothing
- : to do with the problem he's having.
-
- I am trying to figure out just what he meant by "the modem's baud rate
- *must* be allowed to float", it makes no sense at all. My Couriers are
- alwas set to $B1 (DTE rate locked), I always used 115200 as the bps rate,
- and I never had a bit of trouble.
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