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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!ccnet.com!soft21.s21.com!soft21.s21.com!not-for-mail From: jantypas@soft21.s21.com (John Antypas) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI, PPP, and USR Sportster Date: 25 Sep 1995 13:36:08 -0700 Organization: 21st Century Software Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4473ro$18d@soft21.s21.com> References: <lclee.284.003F59E9@primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: soft21.s21.com In article <lclee.284.003F59E9@primenet.com>, Larry Lee <lclee@primenet.com> wrote: >I have a 386DX 25Mhz with a USR Sportster modem and BSDI 2.0 (no patches) > >I've tried baud rates of 38400 and 9600 with absolutely no difference in >results. > >When I use tip, there are no data errors and everything works fine. > >When I attempt to establish a PPP connection, I cannot sync the modem. By >running ktrace on the PPP process, I can see that the "ATE1\r" is being >written, but the data being echoed back is "T1". > >If I modified tip/aculib/hayes.c (lazycmd) so that there is a pause between >each of the characters in the command (I set this for 10ms), then the ATE1 >command worked fine, but the program stalled on the ATV1, so I patched >sendcmd the same way and got farther. > >Conclusion: the modem likes pauses between each of the characters in a command >string. > >Has anyone else experienced this? Any other comments? >USR is popular these days somebody else should have been here first. > >Larry > > Yes, the intercharacter delay problem is realk. I also had to do it for the Optima 28.8 I have. It all stems from the aculib library thats used. One of these days, I'll just create a generic modem driver and a configuration file for it - including the id:## setting. -- John Antypas (jantypas@soft21.s21.com) ---- 21st Century Software -- OS and Networking Engineering Services