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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!swi.psy.uva.nl!tromp From: tromp@swi.psy.uva.nl (Tromp Jolanda) Subject: Re: FreeBSD multiport serial troubles... Message-ID: <CGw0A2.11y@swi.psy.uva.nl> Organization: Social Science Informatics References: <CGorE5.23K@swi.psy.uva.nl> <2cglg6$hm@wzv.win.tue.nl> <CGsMxF.3L5@swi.psy.uva.nl> <1993Nov22.031429.27227@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 09:42:01 GMT Lines: 41 todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff) writes: >In article <CGsMxF.3L5@swi.psy.uva.nl> tromp@swi.psy.uva.nl (Tromp Jolanda) writes: >>I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. It autoanswers always when I have either >>of them connected to a Mac or a normal DOS PC. However, if I plug it into >>my Multiport serial card, it only answers on VERY few occasions and only >>seems to give garbage to the other machine (this might just be a settings >>problem but i cant get it to answer enough times to test). I'm going to >>try to look at the getty source code to see what I can find. Could this >>have something to do with the /dev directory. I didn't touch it from the >>standard distribution of FreeBSD 1.0. However, I did setup both 'gettytab' >>and 'ttys'. >I have a similar problem with dialup logins under FreeBSD-1.0R but on >a standard serial port (not multiport) using sio drivers. >The modem answers, getty responds and starts login, and login seems to >change the tty to cs7 so the remote, which is set for 8-bit data, sees >garbage. You may be experiencing the same problem. During a modem login >attempt, try 'stty -f /dev/serial-device' and check for cflags: cs7. >Is it login that sets the tty to 7-bit? If so, why? If not, then what's >the culprit? Is there a simple solution? I've managed to solve the problem (at least it works for me) there were two problems that I had. The one with the auto answering was due to the fact that I had a group line and the silly PTT didnt tell me that they had configured the phone computer to pick lines sequentially and since I had only one modem connected to the first line. It only called that occassionally so the problem was that the modem was simply not being called. The second problem regarding the garbage on the screen (after receiving a connection) had to do with configuring the modem. You need to play around with the s registers and all the other registers to achive a configuration that will work. Unfortunately not all modems are identical in their configuration parameters, so you will probably have to experiment. I have a DynaLink 14.4kbit modem so in case you have that I can mail you the configuration that works for me. Hope this helps and thanks again for all the answers I got, Mimir