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From: gene@cs.sunysb.edu!stark (Gene Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Anyone with problems with dial in/out?
Date: 11 May 93 08:33:59
Organization: Gene Stark's home system
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Message-ID: <GENE.93May11083359@stark.uucp>
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In-reply-to: fredriks@austin.ibm.com's message of Mon, 10 May 1993 23:13:25 GMT

In article <C6u36D.1155@austin.ibm.com> fredriks@austin.ibm.com (Lars Fredriksen) writes:

>	   I have Chris' bidirectional com driver, and have noticed problems
>   when I have getty enabled on /dev/tty01. When you try to run tip or uucp
>   to dial out, you are lucky if you can connect to the modem 1 out of 5 tries.
>   In between I get all kinds of garbage that seems to come back from the modem,
>   but I suspect getty or the tty driver.

Besides the echo problem, one stupid thing that puzzled me for some time
was the proper tty speed setting for getty.  I have a modem that automatically
configures to the speed it sees from the DTE that it is connected to.
On dialout I use it at 19200, but the actual modem rate is 2400 or 9600.
Somehow I got the idea that if I were dialing in from a remote 2400B modem,
then I should put something like "std.2400" or one of the cycling dialin
entries in the /etc/ttys.

	*WRONG*

I was confused for some time about why I couldn't seem to lock in the
speed on dialing in.  Finally it dawned on me that the proper thing was to
put the fixed-speed "std.19200" in the /etc/ttys entry.

							Gene Stark


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