[comp.sys.att] OBM still dead

yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (Norman Yarvin) (05/26/90)

In article <23551@rphroy.UUCP> tkacik@rphroy.uucp (Tom Tkacik) writes:

>Whenever I pick up the phone connected to machine and then hang up, the
>VOICE/DATA indicator starts clicking between IDLE and ACTIVE.  It clicks about
>once a second.  The only way I have been able to stop it is to go into the
>phone manager, wait for ACTIVE to click on, and then hit the hangup button.

I had that happen when I had an external modem between the Unix PC and the
phone company.  I forget exactly what circumstances caused it, but my
interpretation was that the Unix PC was seeing some strange behavior on the
line from the modem.  It might have happened when the modem was off.

	Norman Yarvin				yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu