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- From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
- Subject: Re: What's going with tip?
- Message-ID: <kbibb.725580286@maui>
- Sender: news@qualcomm.com
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- References: <57800052@glas.apc.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:04:46 GMT
- Lines: 75
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- In <57800052@glas.apc.org> irl@glas.apc.org writes:
-
-
- >Dear colleagues,
-
- >I apologise if it is a FAQ, but I am a new person in the Sun world.
-
- >My task was to connect Telebit T-2500 to our Sun-3/160 in order we can
- >use it both for dial-in and dial-out connections. Sun-3/160 runs SUN
- >OS 4.1.1.
- ^^^^^ Your instructions look like they're for 4.1, not 4.1.1
-
- >Modem is to be connected to the ALM-2 Multiplexor.
-
- >I done all the things enlisted in documentation.
- > 1) I rebuilt the kernel with proper flags for mcp0
-
- There is no longer any kernel patching done.
-
- > 2) I done
- > mv /dev/ttyh0 /dev/ttyd0
- > mknod /dev/cua0 c 44 128
-
- Once you get the device number of a tty port, you do a mknod (like you
- did) but you also need to create a cua1 device with ln. Then do
- a chown uucp.uucp cua* to make them both owned by uucp. (Also, the
- perms need to be 600 for both.)
-
- > 3) I updated /etc/ttytab with the line
- > ttyd0 "getty std.9600" vt100 on remote
-
- my ttytab entry looks like:
-
- ttya "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" dialup off remote modem
-
- > 4) I made an entry in /etc/remote like
- > TEL0:\
-
- My /etc/remote entry looks like:
-
- cua0:dv=/dev/cua0:br#2400
- anarchy:pn=2640181%:tc=UNIX-2400: # a local bbs
- UNIX-2400:\
- br#2400:tc=dialers:
-
- dialers:\
- :el=^D^U^C^S^Q^O@:du:at=hayes:ie=#$%:oe=^D:dv=/dev/cub0,/dev/cua0:\
-
-
- > 5) I setup modem for valid carrier detect report via
- > ATS131=1
-
- Then try: ttysoftcar -a (as root).
-
-
- >It works fine with one noticeable exception. tip doesn't work. It connects
- >to modem (anyway it says "connected") but no characters are transmitted.
- >Such behavior seems to be especially strange because kermit works fine, and
- even on its best days it doesn't ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ;)
-
- why use kermit when tip can handle [xyz]modem?
-
- >even cat smth. > /dev/cua0 works.
-
- >I suppose that it is tip problem, but how to get around it?
-
- >Thanks in advance,
-
- >Volodya Gurevich.
- --
- Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
- kbibb@qualcomm.com universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
- jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
- --"The Dead", James Joyce
-
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