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- From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
- Subject: Modem control (was Re: uucico not hanging up the telephone line)
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- Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc. / Waltham, MA
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:44:59 GMT
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- On a somewhat related subject, I observed the following glitch with my
- now-antiquated Epic 2400 internal modem:
-
- As soon as the CONNECT 2400 message came up, the modem would hang up
- (on the local Linux end) and the modem would display "OK".
-
- To diagnose the problem, I pulled out an even more antique Hayes 1200
- modem and connected it to a serial port and put a Radio Shack RS-232
- signal-display gizmo on the line. Connections worked fine!
-
- For some reason, it immediately occured to me to check the modem manual
- for DTR handling. I typed the following command to the modem:
-
- ATS25=50
-
- This causes the modem to ignore DTR drop until it's been down for 500
- milliseconds. Sure enough, that solved my problem; the above command
- has to be saved in the modem memory (not! on my old modem) or sent prior
- to the ATDT command.
-
- So apparently the Linux serial device driver drops DTR briefly when it
- sees carrier detect, so briefly that I couldn't eyeball it on the
- LEDs. Didn't matter whether clocal was set or not.
-
- Could this really be the case?
-
- -rich
-