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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl2.crl.com!not-for-mail From: kaila@crl.com (Christine Maxwell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with Com Ports Date: 31 Jul 1995 06:43:36 -0700 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3vimm8$466@crl2.crl.com> References: <3uremo$qsr@crl10.crl.com> <3uu67j$opd@crl14.crl.com> <3uvsgn$ar5@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3v61vv$b4a@crl12.crl.com> <3va7s0$2iq@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl2.crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@bonnie.heep.sax.de) wrote: : Christine Maxwell <kaila@crl.com> wrote: : >..., and my only problem with it really, is letting people : >log in at speeds under 9600 (my ibm easy options 14.4 doesn't seem to : >like slow modems) I may have to write a modified getty to listen for the : >connect speed and reset to that to avoid speed buffering problems :( : Is `automatic' (well, semi-manual) speed selection an option for you? : The getty has a long-standing feature that lets it cycle through : several gettytab entries if it's receiving a line BREAK from the : modem. Look at the gettytab entries marked with ``Dial in rotary : tables'' for an (admittedly very ancient :) example. : OTOH, if you can fix your modem at a particular DTE speed (19200 or : 38400 e.g.), it should always work. Most modern modems can be frozen : in their DTE speed. If I lock dte at 19,200 to 57,600 then low baud users get a lot of garbage. This is an IBM Easy Options modem, and seem to be not quite standard. I finally solved the problem by setting it up to cycle from 9600 to 57,600 although I wish it'd do it with a newline instead of a break :/ Not to be rude, but a lot of the bbs'ers in this area are either not real bright, or fairly lazy. (to give you an example all my login screen says is Type CBM at login login: and some of them STILL mess it up (trying to enter their names, or "new" instead...)) so I have to make this all as simple as possible. In the next version of the software, I think i'll write my own getty that scans for the connect message and adjusts speed to match... Thanks for your reply :)