aland@infmx.informix.com (Alan Denney) (03/21/91)
I've had this strange situation where, when trying to dial up to a
particular modem/machine (ATT2224CEO modem on a 386 UNIX box) using
Procomm from my laptop, I get scrambling of the visible characters
(as if all characters were replaced by 8-bit chracters). Typing
characters in works OK, because I can log in if I ignore the display.
Running Mirror from the same laptop does not get this behavior (though
it has other problems of its own, e.g. poor vt100 emulation).
The laptop has a Pratical Pocket Modem (2400 baud, no MNP).
Now, I get the same kind of behavior dialing into a Sun IPC which has
a Microcom QX/4232hs modem. The only key thing in common between
these two modems is that both have hardware MNP5. Can Procomm not
live with MNP5, at least in hardware? (Our local modem pool has
2400 baud MNP4(?) modems, and these never give me this problem).
I also get more failures to get a "normal" connect on the Microcom
(set-up in autoreliable mode) than on the AT&T, though that's not
necessarily the modem's fault.
Is this a "known" problem? Any helpful hints appreciated. I see
nothing in the Procomm setup menus that seems pertinent.
Thanks in advance. Followups to comp.dcom.modems.
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Alan Denney "If that honey would come back
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Disclaimer: I am a Toon. Fondue forks for everybody." - TMBGjham@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (John Ham) (03/27/91)
I have a Practical Peripherals PM2400SA MNP/Level 5 external modem and use MNP with Procomm Plus 2.0. The MNP is always active. I had to get the initialization string from Datastorm (it turns out some waits "~" have to be in it and I didn't know about it), but after that I've had no problem. I suggest you give Datastorm a call (after all, part of the price of the Procomm is the support, and I assume you have the number) and let them help you with it. They have a database with zillions of modems covered and a very knowledgable and polite staff. Later - jham@cs.umr.edu P.S. The other thing to do is once you log in change the parity settings on the fly and see if maybe you can find one that works - several BBSs I've been on say 8/N/1 and want 7/E/1.