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- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: SDL problems with new Courier modems
- Date: 21 Apr 1996 02:58:58 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Message-ID: <4lc89i$aem@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
- References: <4kj6e1$jjn@chagall.cti-software.nl> <4klkb3$eb@news1.mnsinc.com> <4l4e8m$968@sam.inforamp.net> <4l5p9l$o0c@hopi.gate.net> <4lat76$fap@nntp1.best.com> <4lbeim$nai@hopi.gate.net>
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
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- doug haire (dhaire@gate.net) writes:
- > Matt Fox (Rigor@clever.net) wrote:
- > : In article <4l5p9l$o0c@hopi.gate.net>, dhaire@gate.net says...
- > : >
- > : >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,
- > :
- > : floating is part of the sdl process it lowers teh baud rate to 9600
- > : and back to 19200 and then to like what ever youe baud rate is set
- > : at to do the sdl process aparantly so other programs cannot snoop
- > : on the sdl xfer or something...
- > :
- > : those transfer rates (9600 and 19200) that the sdl process floats too
- > : might be incorrect its what i recall off the top of my head
- >
- > Why would the SDL process change the rate??? If it did, why would you be
-
- Good question..
-
- > able to set the rate when running the executable???
-
- Because some ports won't handle 57600 DTE rates I suppose, and
- some people would rather use 115.2kbps.
-
- > Have you ever really done a firmware load on a USR Courier?
- >
- > You either accept the port and rate defaults (port 1 and 57600) or you use
- > command line options to change them. I always changed the speed so that
- > it was *set* to 115200.
- >
- > I have no idea what it is you are trying to tell us about this "floating"
- > baud rate, it doesn't make any sense to me.
-
- None of USR's SDL program makes sense really. I've never seen
- another modem (or anything else for that matter) use FlashROM like this.
- Apperently the reasoning behind it is security. Personnaly I think USR's
- part of a conspiracy to try to prevent everyone from running something
- other then a PC with DOS/Windows! :> In any case, no idea why USR
- Courier's have to have their DTE change as part of the firmware upgrade
- process, that's just the way the are..
-
- Anthony
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