george@spectrum (08/05/89)
A friend of mine is having difficulties setting up a modem to his Personal Iris. No one seem to have set one up. If you have or are familiar with how to do it, please respond. Thanx. -george x3115
vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) (08/05/89)
In article <39618@sgi.SGI.COM>, george@spectrum writes: > A friend of mine is having difficulties setting up a modem > to his Personal Iris. No one seem to have set one up. > If you have or are familiar with how to do it, please respond. > Thanx. > -george x3115 There are many Personal IRIS's around the factory and the Bay Area with modems, ranging from 1200/2400 Hayes-compatibles to TB+'s and TB-2500's. Some are using 6-port boards, while others use the built-in ports. It's straight forward to connect a modem to an IRIS, as to any UNIX box with reasonable RS-232C support. All 4D's are essentially identical when it comes to putting a modem on one of their ports. It helps to have the manual for the modem. With some modems, it may be necessary to use a break-out box to discover modem craziness. No 20 word description of RS-232C is sufficiently detailed to be of interest anywhere but on a TV news program, so I will not attempt to diagnose these unspecified difficulties. The most common troubles, in order, are in the cable, jumpers or settings in the modem, /usr/lib/uucp/Devices, the permissions and ownership of /dev/tty[dmf]*, and in /etc/inittab. Vernon Schryver Silicon Graphics vjs@sgi.com