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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: incoming lines Date: 31 May 1996 17:20:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4on9ob$df@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4p2qil$ik5@stratus.skypoint.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E psonnek@skypoint.com (Patrick Sonnek) wrote: > How do I get FreeBSD to send an init string to the modem when getty > starts up? it's a fairly generic 14.4K modem. There's no such concept as an ``init string'' for a modem connected to a Unix machine. Instead, make proper use of your modem's ability to store a well-known initialization in its NVRAM (after all, what is it for?), and configure it to initialize itself as much as possible at any DTR drop (AT&D3 or somesuch). Unices do drop DTR on each close of the corresponding tty device, so this will be a safe method to have your modem hanging up, and reinitializing itself to a known state. Don't forget to lock the modem's DTE speed to the value your getty is using in case you wanna allow for incoming connections. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)