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From: michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards)
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Q: tip does not dial out !?
References: <2i10ut$7uv@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 15:04:05 GMT
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In article <2i10ut$7uv@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> , centauri wrote:
> after a long time I finally managed to set up my /etc/remote, so tip will
> not tell me anything like "unknown host", "link down", etc. But ...
> Well, I start the program, and it tells me 'dialing ...'. I can watch my
> modems LEDs flash, but it doesn't go offhook. After a while pressing '~.'
> finishes the session, tip ends with [EOT] and I get my regular prompt.
> Nice ...
> My remote file has an entry like au=hayes, a pn=123456789. But what is
> missing ?
I think that you phoneline needs pulse-dialing whereas the default for
tip is tone-dialing. Change you remote entry to ' pn=P123456789 ' and
the modem should dial correct.
Funny that tip ignores defaults settings of the modem. I set it to use
the pulse-dialing by default, but tip uses ATDT :-(
Michael
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