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- From: dons@olympus.net (Don Schmelling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: PPP cant init serial.device
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 11:18:08 PST
- Organization: Internet for the Olympic Peninsula
- Message-ID: <19960114.11AC7B0.A0A2@olympus.net>
- References: <4br5oj$6uq@yarrow.wt.com.au> <2780.6569T1404T1636@ptialaska.net> <19960114.7D18F40.C39B@daemon.apana.org.au.apana.org.au>
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- neil@daemon.apana.org.au.apana.org.au wrote:
- : Like a lot of you, I too have had problems with getting the dialer in
- : ppp1_30.lha to work.
- :
- : I have suspect the problem is to do with "serial.device" itself. It would
- : appear that when something opens the serial.device with a certain setting
- : it is locked that way. The thing I blame is the prefences tool -- Serial.
- :
- : As an example, I tried to get ppp0.config to dial using "serial.device" at
- : 19200bps, and then repeated the exercise at a speed of 38400bps.
- :
- : The dialscript contained:
- : send "ATZ"
- : wait "OK"
- : all I wanted was a response from the modem.
- :
- : At no time could I get a response from the modem. However, when I loaded
- : up my terminal program, I had no problems. This would be because the
- : terminal program steals the "serial.device" away from whatever it is that
- : has it. This is something that the PPP1_30 dialer cannot do (at least I am
- : not aware that it can).
- :
- : So I changed to a replacement for the serial device -- 8n1.device -- and
- : retried whithout any problems whatsoever. I have also tried artser.device
- : with no success either.
- :
- You seem to think that if you repeat this bogus claim frequently enough that
- it will become true.
-
- Change the line send "ATZ" to send "ATZ\R" or whatever else your modem uses
- like ^M
-
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