paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) (12/12/89)
I am still looking for good multi-ports board for modem type terminal (both dial-out and dial-in) only. I have bad experience with Arnet SmartPorts and I have contact other Arnet owners to have same problem. I am running SCO Unix 3.2, Telebit T2500 and Hayes 2400. I believe that Smart board works best for serial cable connecting to terminal and modem type terminal works best with Dumb type serial board. Please correct me if I am wrong. I still don't know which board I should look for. DIGIboard looks good but it is not in Seattle area. Thank you for your time. willy ................................................................ . Willy Paine BBS/FAX +1-206-822-4615 . . willyp@seaeast.WA.COM FidoNet 1:343/15 . . uunet!nwnexus!seaeast!willyp fungus.enet.dec.com!paine . ................................................................
mikes@NCoast.ORG (Mike Squires) (12/12/89)
In article <8912120109.AA17762@decwrl.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes: > >I am still looking for good multi-ports board for modem type terminal >(both dial-out and dial-in) only. I have bad experience with Arnet >SmartPorts and I have contact other Arnet owners to have same problem. >I am running SCO Unix 3.2, Telebit T2500 and Hayes 2400. I'm running a TB+ using an Arnet Smartport, driver v 5.1.9, and except for the bug with DTR not dropping under certain conditions things are working satisfactorily. OS is XENIX V 2.3.2. I traced many of my problems to the dialTBIT dialer, which was broken. Using the Dialers file instead (with a entry for initialization) seems to work OK - at least there haven't been any LCK..tty3C files left in /usr/spool/uucp for a while now. Arnet has promised an updated driver in three weeks (hint, hint).
larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) (12/12/89)
> I believe that Smart board works best for serial cable connecting to > terminal and modem type terminal works best with Dumb type serial board. > Please correct me if I am wrong. I agree. I've played with the Computone and Digiboard smart boards - and neither one works with bi-directional communications using the supplied drivers under SCO Xenix. > I still don't know which board I should look for. DIGIboard looks good > but it is not in Seattle area. Digiboard does offer a 30 day "trial" period - to see if you can get their products up and running.. -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN uucp: root@nstar -or- ...!iuvax!ndmath!nstar!root
karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) (12/13/89)
In article <8912120109.AA17762@decwrl.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes: > >I am still looking for good multi-ports board for modem type terminal >(both dial-out and dial-in) only. I have bad experience with Arnet >SmartPorts and I have contact other Arnet owners to have same problem. >I am running SCO Unix 3.2, Telebit T2500 and Hayes 2400. > >I believe that Smart board works best for serial cable connecting to >terminal and modem type terminal works best with Dumb type serial board. >Please correct me if I am wrong. No! Especially if you are going to be doing lots of high-speed I/O! >I still don't know which board I should look for. DIGIboard looks good >but it is not in Seattle area. Digiboard IS good. One of the better ones. They are not cheap, but are worth it. Specialix is a new one for us, but very promising. The driver has a few bugs in it, but nothing terrible that UUCP won't deal with. They also have pledged to solve the problems -- more than many other companies have said they would do (or have actually done)! >Thank you for your time. No problem! -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl) Public Access Data Line: [+1 708 566-8911], Voice: [+1 708 566-8910] Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. "Quality Solutions at a Fair Price"
asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) (12/14/89)
In article <8912120109.AA17762@decwrl.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes: >I am still looking for good multi-ports board for modem type terminal >(both dial-out and dial-in) only. I have bad experience with Arnet >SmartPorts and I have contact other Arnet owners to have same problem. >I am running SCO Unix 3.2, Telebit T2500 and Hayes 2400. willy- I'm a happy user of an Equinox megaport baord under Interactive Unix. The device driver disk label says it works under SCO unix (among others) too. I got mine from Continental Computer systems in CT. Equinox sent me there. Here's the number: 203 665-1355. They are very knowledgeable about SCO Unix too. I run a Trailblazer doing bidirectional uucp on the board and it works fine. No interrupts either! (happy user disclaimers apply) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | - Stan Voket, asv@gaboon - OR - ...uunet!hsi!stpstn!gaboon!asv | | Land Line: (203) 746-4489 TELEX 4996516 - | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
stewart@netxcom.DHL.COM (John Stewart) (12/15/89)
In article <511080@nstar.UUCP> larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes: >I agree. I've played with the Computone and Digiboard smart boards - and >neither one works with bi-directional communications using the supplied >drivers under SCO Xenix. I've been bitten by that myself using the Computone board. The solution is to make it stupid by gutting /etc/ic_control. To be explicit, here are the contents of my /etc/ic_control file: ttyi00: ttyi01: =ttyi00 ttyi02: =ttyi00 ttyi03: =ttyi00 ttyi04: =ttyi00 ttyi05: =ttyi00 ttyi06: =ttyi00 ttyi07: =ttyi00 -- John Stewart, Effective Computing, Inc., (202) 232-5470 stewart@ecompin.UUCP at NetExpress Communications, Inc., (703) 749-2796 stewart@netxcom.iad-nxe.global-mis.dhl.com
pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) (12/17/89)
karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes: >Specialix is a new one for us, but very promising. The driver has a few >bugs in it, but nothing terrible that UUCP won't deal with. At least in the UNIX 386 driver for Specialix there is a bug that is terrible enough that I can't make this board work properly with modems. If you have strapped your modem to hold CD high only when a connection is established, you can't dial out. If you open the modem control device with the O_NDELAY flag set (by specifying ttyAxx,M in Devices), uucico aborts as soon as the O_NDELAY flag is cleared, probarbly because the driver sends a SIGHUP to the process. For those who are intererested, I use 386/ix 2.0.1 with the 2.02A Specialix driver. >They also have pledged to solve the problems -- more than many other >companies have said they would do (or have actually done)! You have better experiences then I have, I reported this bug in August this year and did not even receive any acknowledgement. -- Pim Zandbergen domain : pim@cti-software.nl CTI Software BV uucp : uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ctisbv!pim Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 phone : +31 70 3542302 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands fax : +31 70 3512837
jpp@specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt) (12/18/89)
>>They also have pledged to solve the problems -- more than many other >>companies have said they would do (or have actually done)! >You have better experiences then I have, I reported this bug in >August this year and did not even receive any acknowledgement. Firstly sorry to take up net bandwidth on this but as the original comment went to the whole net I feel it right to reply to the net. (flames to /dev/null) I have checked out logs and the bug was logged and acknoweledged by mail. It appears that the mail went to /dev/null at some point (we don't keep mail logs for more than a month so I can't say what route it took). If you do need to report bugs the correct address is support@specialix.co.uk The bug you reported (not setting CARR_ON when CLOCAL is set on a modem device) has been fixed. The fix is in the version currently in QC for mid/late Jan release. >-- >Pim Zandbergen domain : pim@cti-software.nl >CTI Software BV uucp : uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ctisbv!pim >Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 phone : +31 70 3542302 >2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands fax : +31 70 3512837 -- John Pettitt UUCP: uunet!slxsys!jpp Internet: John.Pettitt@specialix.co.uk JANET: emxxjpp@uk.ac.brunel.me POTS: +44 1 941 2564 FAX: +44 1 941 4098 Disclaimer: Me, say that ? Never, it's a forged posting !
karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) (12/20/89)
In article <1652@ctisbv.cti-software.nl> pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes: >karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes: > >>Specialix is a new one for us, but very promising. The driver has a few >>bugs in it, but nothing terrible that UUCP won't deal with. > >At least in the UNIX 386 driver for Specialix there is a bug >that is terrible enough that I can't make this board work properly >with modems. > >If you have strapped your modem to hold CD high only when a connection >is established, you can't dial out. If you open the modem control >device with the O_NDELAY flag set (by specifying ttyAxx,M in >Devices), uucico aborts as soon as the O_NDELAY flag is cleared, >probarbly because the driver sends a SIGHUP to the process. Actually the problem is that read()s return immediately (they ignore the clear of the O_NDELAY). We can get around that (since we have a "strange" uucp) but it is a hassle. It also breaks our dialout terminal program (grrrrrr). The problem is easily demonstrated and reproducible. >For those who are intererested, I use 386/ix 2.0.1 with >the 2.02A Specialix driver. Me too. >>They also have pledged to solve the problems -- more than many other >>companies have said they would do (or have actually done)! > >You have better experiences then I have, I reported this bug in >August this year and did not even receive any acknowledgement. AUGUST?! Now I am getting concerned. We >need< that bug fixed. It is serious. While I like the card, if this is a problem that won't get fixed soon we're in deep.... -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl) Public Access Data Line: [+1 708 566-8911], Voice: [+1 708 566-8910] Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. "Quality Solutions at a Fair Price"