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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!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!ub!csn!boulder!cnsnews!rintintin.Colorado.EDU!ramzi From: ramzi@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Ramzi Al-Majid) Subject: setting modem line Message-ID: <CGzFwo.Au1@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU> Sender: usenet@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU (Net News Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: rintintin.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 06:12:23 GMT Lines: 36 i am having some difficulties setting the modem line for kermit and tip. i have a supra v.32bis on com2 (dos). i looked in the /dev directory and i saw 4 ttys namely, tty01 2 3 and 4. is tty01 the same as com2 ? this device has the following permission : crw------- and is owned by uucp. the minor major on this device is 28 0. i set up tip and tried to dial out to a unix system and all i get is a modem light that goes on for a while and then off. the system then hangs unril i do ~. to exit tip. i also set up kermiit and when i do set line /dev/tty01 the system hangs also, and the modem light remains on. any idea what's going on here ? thanks in advance. Ramzi -- Ramzi M. Al-Majid Computer Science Department Univ. of Colorado - Boulder ramzi@cs.colorado.edu Campus Box # 430 {ncar|nbires}!boulder!ramzi Boulder, CO 80309-0430