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- From: edi@edefix.han.de (E. v. Pappenheim)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Interesting Modem Problem
- Message-ID: <Bs4F14.34A@edefix.han.de>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 22:41:26 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.114547.6517@jr.rhein-main.de>
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- joachim@jr.rhein-main.de (Joachim Riedel) writes:
- : kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
- : > My modeminit is changed from the standard Coherent one somewhat, for
- : > starters it's actually /etc/modeminit rather than living in /usr/bin.
- : > Mine actually just calls a script called /etc/modemreset which does the
- : > work of spitting a command string to the port at the right speed, so
- : > /etc/modeminit is similar in concept to something like /etc/drvld.all.
- : > The misconfigured modeminit was initialising the modem and presumably the
- : > serial drivers to 9600 baud on com2, so later attempts by login (reading
- : > from /etc/ttys) to use the port at 19200 were causing speed mismatches.
- :
- : Am not absolutely sure why you need something like modeminit at all.
- : I run my Coherent-BBS without modeminit.
-
- If you aren't running your system 24h Coherent, it's nice to have a modem-
- init to set the modem to autoanswer :-)
- I even have a /etc/modemreset to switch off autoanswer on shutdown ...
-
- : I setup the modems ( 1 USR Dual Standard ) to a fixed baud rate of 19200 Baud.
- : I also setup the modem to reset whenever DTR drops.
- : When I want to place a UUCP-call then all info is in /etc/modemcap (former
- : times) or is now contained in /usr/local/conf/uucp/sys (Taylor-UUCP).
- :
- : I think that a hardware reset (DTR drops, MODEM RESETS) is always better
- : than a software reset.
- : I tried it with several V32bis-modems (USR, ZYXEL, Telebit) and it always
- : worked fine.
- : With some cheaper V32bis modems (ie. SUPRA - ROCKWELL-CHIPSET) you will
- : have problems. Especially because you cannot set a fixed speed. Under
- : some circumstances it automaticly switches to a higher speed and then you
- : only get junk on the screen.
-
- I have no problems with my SUPRAFAX 32bis (ROM version 1.200c), you CAN set
- it to a fixed speed, and it resets on DTR-drop, if you set AT&D3 :-)
-
- : Cheers
- :
- : Joachim
-
- Ciao,
-
- Ecki
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