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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: want to dial in
Message-ID: <1992Aug14.222957.12951@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:29:57 GMT
References: <1992Aug11.100209.5029@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
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kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:
>I want to use my 386BSD now for dialing in. 
>I tried the D2400 getty type and when I switched off-on my modem I saw the
>send/receive leds on the modem flash in conjunction with a console
>message saying that there was some overflow problem at com1 (silo or
>something like that). It looked like there was a feedback storm at the
>input port.

If you used your modem for DOS, you'll have to change the default settings.
(This isn't a 386BSD problem, but a generic UNIX issue).  You need to turn
off anything that echoes result codes or status back from the modem to 
the computer, or you'll have a getty war.
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