"0000-Admin@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU (06/09/91)
For a long time (since before I became associated with uzi.mit.edu), there has been a modem connection on ttym2. Recently, it has stopped functioning. The following message has appeared in the SYSLOG: grcond[1042]: CIO: getty: ioctl(TCGETA2, "ttym2"): errno=6 On the modem, all of the status lights remain on full time. The trouble is, I'm away from my machine for the next several weeks, limiting how much I can fool around in person. So my question is pretty basic: does this sound like a software thing that I can repair from afar, or is it a hardware thing with the modem that I'll have to wait till I get back to MIT to fix? A second, identical modem was evidently substituted for the one that was previously connected, and it evidently also failed to work. On the other hand, nothing changed on the IRIS end as far as I can tell. Also, the cable connection seems to be fine, I'm told. I've read the manual stuff on the error and ioctl(), etc., just to check up and see if there was something that I was missing. Error 6 seems to just indicate that there is a communication problem -- either the IRIS is trying to access a feature of the modem that isn't there or the modem is, in effect, "off line". I guess I wish I knew more about how it was originally configured. If anyone has any potentially useful experiences with connecting modems to PIs, please send along some e-mail. Thanks, Eugene Gholz (root@uzi.mit.edu)