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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Modem unusable :-( Message-ID: <1994Jun22.234503.4965@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <772309400snz@bstone.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 23:45:03 GMT Lines: 28 Ian Steel (Ian@bstone.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Hello, : Can someone PLEASE help me as it has been 2 months now and I still can't get : my modem to hangup when using FreeBSD 1.1 : Its a Miracom Courier DS HST connected to tty01. I can dial up ok and connect : to my internet service provider (demon uk), but after receiving mail, etc I : cannot get the modem to hang up. I've tried echoing "+++\c" followed by a : pause, then echoing "ath" but it just sits there on line. : PLEASE, PLEASE, will someone tell me where I am going wrong. I'm at the point : now where I shall have to leave FreeBSD (very regretfully) and use Linux as : all the unix box is for is to act as a mail / news server. : Please help.... :-( Try recompiling your kernel with "option COM_BIDIR" then do a "mknod cua01 c 28 129" in your dev directory. Then in your /etc/rc.local file put a "comcontrol /dev/cua01 bidir" line in it. Then reboot your system and use only the /dev/cua01 device for dialing out from your system. This should hopefully solve your problem with 1.1R. This only applies to FreeBSD 1.1R and earlier. It is different with current and the upcoming 1.1.5 as bidir is the default now and not an option. Steve