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- From: Jim.Corbett@f35.n152.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Corbett)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: KERMIT quirk
- Message-ID: <721914029.F00050@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 10:52:01 GMT
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- As I have not purchased a pair of E-Net cards to try TCP/IP, I decided
- to try and use KERMIT on a serial line to access the machine on the
- other end of the house.
-
- I had an existing 6 conductor phone line that I use for a DOS network
- (NET$25) that runs fine on it at 115kb, so I hooked it up and ran KERMIT
- in the server mode on my 286 AST and ran KERMIT under X on the LINUX
- machine (486).
- All worked well (a few errors at 38400) until I upgrade from the SLS
- 0.98pl1 to pl2. Kermit would no longer work.
- After many attempts and then upgrading to pl3 and pl4 it still would not
- work, it would (both systems in con mode) recieve data, but not send
- (well that is what I though till I was on the phone for about 10 minutes
- and then saw what I had typed on the linux kermit show up on the dos
- end, yea 10 minutes later).
-
- So I tried it on a 2400 baud modem, all worked well, 0.98pl1 thru pl4.
-
- Well walking back and forth down the hall at 3 am got a testy responce
- from my spouse, so I set a terminal up on the floor and hooked it up as
- a dummy xon/xoff terminal.
-
- WOW it worked!!!
-
- So what was different? THE CABLE
- It appears that the updates to the serial i/o now look at some of the
- DTR, CTS type signals. The cable that worked had only 2-3, 3-2, 7-7
- connected, the other one 2-3, 3-2, 4-4, 6-20 and 7-7.
-
- Hope my experiance saves someone else some frustrations.
-
- BTW, I noticed that any activity on the linux pc causes errors to be
- genetated when KERMIT is recieving a file.
- I got around this by setting the retrys to 30 on both ends.
-
- It is nice to be able to get files from the BBS system while on the
- other end of the house and recomplie the latest patch to the kernel at
- the same time as playing Tetris til one of the jobs has completed.
-
- Question
- --------
- I am now running C-Kermit 5a (wermit) and would like to try
- a faster that 38400 baud rate (the Kermit-MS 2.32/A on the BBS machine
- can go to 115200 baud.
- Where do I find #define B57600 or such to allow me to compile wermit
- for higher than 384 ? I can patch the code in the ckufio.c, but it
- yells about not finding B57600.
- What include file are those limits set in?
-
-
- Thanks
- ------
- My thanks to Linus and many others for a powerful work/learn system.
- Also to SLS for making the collection and installation of LINUX much
- easier! (X386 is nice to use)
-
- * Origin: Intermittent Connection, Eugene OR 503-344-9838 (1:152/35)
-