greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) (09/23/89)
Hi. I have a TrailBlazer Plus hooked up to my NeXT. It works, but not quite as it should, I don't think. Here is the problem. There is an (undocumented) modem type supported by "uucico" called "telebittone" that would appear to be the correct thing for a Telebit modem, although "hayestone" should also work, since it is basically Hayes-compatible. But the rub is that "uucico" insists on sending the string "ATV1E0H" to the modem to start things out, regardless of whether it is in "telebittone" mode or "hayestone" mode. This is supposed to set verbose=1, echo=0, and hang up the phone. Unfortunately, "ATH" results in a message of "NO CARRIER" from the trailblazer, and "uucico" is expecting "OK". My other Hayes- compatible modem responds with "OK" when you send it "ATH", and it all works fine. This sounds really confusing already, I realize. I guess what I'm wondering is this: 1. Is there any register I can set in the TrailBlazer that will make it respond "OK" instead of "NO CARRIER" when sent the "ATH" command? 2. Is there any other ACU modem type that will work with the TrailBlazer? At the moment I have gotten it to work by declaring it to be a 'DIR' connection and putting the ATDTphonenum commands in the chat script of the L.sys file, but I'd rather it were an ACU entry, if possible. Oh, and one other thing, that seems contrary to popular belief. I can't seem to get the TrailBlazer to behave on serial port A at all, but it is quite happy on port B, even with a "Mac" cable that's not supposed to work on the NeXT cube. On serial port A, the getty process seems to think there's somebody trying to log in (I guess DTR/DSR is trigger happy), and it keeps spawning a login process when it shouldn't. Incidentally, as per the comments in the comp.sys.next groups recently, just what does it mean for a modem to "appear to work" but not really be working? At this very moment I'm logged in remotely to work at 9600 baud with my modem that "appears" to be working, but maybe it isn't and I haven't realized it yet :-) Glenn Reid Adobe Systems greid@adobe.com