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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!elna.ethz.ch!torda From: torda@igc.chem.ethz.ch (Andrew Torda) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: /etc/ttys, ttyflags, modem+tip question, NetBSD 1.0 Date: 16 Nov 1994 12:04:01 GMT Organization: Computational Chemistry, ETH, Zuerich Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3acsfh$ar2@elna.ethz.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: hermitage.ethz.ch I would be grateful for some advice on /etc/ttys + ttyflags under NetBSD 1.0 and tip and slip. I used to use tip to talk to my modem, get it to do some dialling and then set up a slip line (under NetBSD 0.9). Now, I upgraded to NetBSD 1.0 - what was /dev/com0 seems to be /dev/tty00. Yes ? - if I just use my old way of talking to the modem, tip seems to fail on opening /dev/tty00 and complains that the link is down. - it seems necessary to specify some flags for the serial port via /etc/ttys and ttyflags. Is this right ? - it seems necessary to use ttyflags to get /etc/ttys to take effect ? Am I missing something here ? * What flags do people normally use to talk to their modem on a tty line ? local ? rtscts ? mdmbuf ? softcar ? I couldn't even get an `OK' response from my modem until I began randomly playing with the flags. Obviously, I left `off' amongst the flags since I don't want a getty running. * Could I run ttyflags from /etc/ttys ? If I ever guess the correct tty flags ? Would this be a good idea to keep the com0 port happy ? Many thanks -Andrew -- This posting is not merely my opinion. It is the official position of my employer, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Andrew Torda, Computational Chemistry, ETH, Zurich, torda@igc.chem.ethz.ch http://igc.chem.ethz.ch/torda/torda.html