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From: Ian@bstone.demon.co.uk (Ian Steel)
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Subject: Re: Dialout modem
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migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org "Michael Giegerich" writes:
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> From: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich)
> Subject: Re: Dialout modem
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> In article <768923589snz@bstone.demon.co.uk>,
> Ian Steel <Ian@bstone.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >No matter what I seem to try, I can't get tip/slip/pppd/chat/echo to talk to
> >a modem connected to tty01.
> >
> >I can talk to it using 'cu -ltty01 dir' and then run ifconfig, etc to sort out
> ^^^^^
> You should use /dev/cua00 to dial out (make sure you did
> `/sbin/mknod /dev/cua01 c 28 129' to create /dev/cua01
> `/sbin/comcontrol /dev/tty00 bidir' to turn on bidir capabilities).
>
> Bye,
> -Michael
> --
Thanks. The trouble is that my FreeBSD 1.1 doesn't appear to like using these
mythical /dev/cua?? devices :-(
I tried doing the mknod which went fine, but the comcontrol complained saying
that the ioctl specified wasn't supported for this device. Whats going on?
All I want to do is dial out :-(
I can now dial out using tty01 using chat but I have to do
'stty -f /dev/tty01 clocal 38400' first. The problem then is getting the modem
to drop the line when I've finished - it never does. I have to turn the modem
off to get the line to drop! :-(
So the question now is does anyone have a suitable robot arm interface for
FreeBSD 1.1 so that I can get it to turn the modem off/on for me at 03:00 each
day?
<sigh>...come on, someone must have got this lot sorted out. Obviously I'm
being completely stupid in not being able to do all this so please put an old
idiot out of his misery and spill the beans...
Thanks, dispondantly...
--
Ian Steel