jimmy@denwa.uucp (Jim Gottlieb) (06/21/89)
Any idea why when I turn off the terminal connected to tty001, immediately the SD and RD lights start going continuously on the modem on tty000 and bring the machine to a halt? Is this a grounding problem? Thanks. -- Jim Gottlieb E-Mail: <jimmy@denwa.uucp> or <jimmy@pic.ucla.edu> or <attmail!denwa!jimmy> V-Mail: (213) 551-7702 Fax: 478-3060 The-Real-Me: 824-5454
dfjr@mathcs.emory.edu (Dave Ford) (07/05/89)
In article <304@denwa.uucp> jimmy@denwa.UUCP (Jim Gottlieb) writes: >Any idea why when I turn off the terminal connected to tty001, >immediately the SD and RD lights start going continuously on the modem >on tty000 and bring the machine to a halt? Is this a grounding >problem? Thanks. >-- > Jim Gottlieb > E-Mail: <jimmy@denwa.uucp> or <jimmy@pic.ucla.edu> or <attmail!denwa!jimmy> > V-Mail: (213) 551-7702 Fax: 478-3060 The-Real-Me: 824-5454 have had a similar problem, though I have no terminal (and in fact no tty001 port...). I upgraded from 3.5 to 3.51, installed all the peripheral stuff, etc., and then set about running the machine through its paces. Everything seemed to be OK until I tried to run ckermit (the new version, whichever one that is). When I tried it, my modem lights started blinking just as described above. The phone never got off-hook, and kermit just sat there as if nothing were wrong. When I tried uw, it worked fine -- but then it uses the modemcap entry. The bad part is that the modem lights will sometimes start to blink without help from kermit or anything else that uses tty000, but if I run uw during such a time, the modem settles down and obeys orders. Stranger still, sometimes during these periods, the character echo in my shell gets munged and drops random characers (they are still entered, just not echoed). Rebooting doesn't help, and I know that kermit knows how to talk to my modem, since it has done it before. Can anybody explain this behaviour? I am tempted to return to 3.5, if this is the price for 3.51. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Ford -- really a grad student at Duke daf@cs.duke.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------