*BSD News Article 20783


Return to BSD News archive

Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!pagesat!indirect.com!garbled
From: garbled@indirect.com (Tim Rightnour)
Subject: Re: modem with netbsd help needed
Message-ID: <1993Sep11.224907.2334@indirect.com>
Keywords: telebit worldblazer modem netbsd
Organization: Internet Direct Inc. -- (602) 274-0100
References: <1993Sep6.064333.5177@informix.com> <CCxn58.Cu3@taronga.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 22:49:07 GMT
Lines: 13

In article <CCxn58.Cu3@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Unless you have a uugetty replacement (that does the uucp locking handshake)
>you have to install something that provides bidirectional ports (such as the
>sio driver in FreeBSD), so far as I can tell. I can only assume that people
>running NetBSD have dedicated dial-in/dial-out lines.

This is true..  What I have done to alleviate this problem is to write 2
ttys files..  and name them ttys.on ttys.off.

then when I want to dialout..  i just replace ttys with the correct one,
and reboot.    Annoying..  but effective.