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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: WorldBlazer still locks up with LA5.01 ROMs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.015106.3499@isus.UUCP>
- From: hoyt@isus.UUCP (Hoyt A. Stearns jr.)
- Date: 1 Sep 92 01:51:06 GMT
- Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems
- References: <1992Aug25.160641.24339@tssi.com> <1992Aug27.223245.957@hyphen.com>
- Organization: International Society of Unified Science
- Keywords: DTR, Worldblazer lockup
- Summary: DTR problem?
- Lines: 23
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- >nolan@tssi.com (Michael Nolan) writes:
- >
- >>The WorldBlazer modem apparently still locks up occasionally with the new
- >>LA5.01 ROM chips in it, because one of mine did so last night. When this
- >>happens, the ONLY way to get the modem working again is to power it off and
- >>on again, the T/D switch is non-functional too. (Interestingly enough, there
- >>wasn't even a uugetty process active for that modem line once it hung.)
- >
-
- Mine is still locking up too, with LA5.01. Once it stayed off-hook for >
- than the inactivity timer (would have been forever if I didn't turn it off),
- and twice it wouldn't answer.
-
- My current hypothesis is that it only partially sees DTR dropping
- (if that's so, it is poor real time firmware design). The minimum
- time it can be set to respond to DTR is 50MS, whereas it appears ttymon
- pulses DTR around 10 MS, judging by the wink of the DTR lite on logout.
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