root@cdword.UUCP (J. Jay Smith) (08/22/89)
I apologize for any reposting that this might cause, but I'm not at all sure that the last posting made it anywhere in the world (let alone out my back door). The question simply is, has anyone gotten "uugetty" to work under RISC/os 4.01 reliably with all features and priviledges attendent thereto. In other words, with full modem control (SIGHUP and HUPCL both working) and dial-in/dial-out capabilities. My situation is that we've got a Mips 120-5 running 4.01. I've got one modem on tty3 and one on ttyd16 (digiboard). The modem on tty3 allows dial-in/dial- out, but does not send SIGHUP to any active process when the line goes down. The modem on ttyd16 will send SIGHUP, but will not allow uucp to ever send any characters TO the modem, though it will READ from the modem. Please help. Out modems were hung-up all weekend because the feed to our major uucp site got cut off and uucp never reset. Thank you in advance for ANY help that ANYONE might be able to offer. Mips has *SUPPOSEDLY* been looking into this for over a month, but I've *NOT HEARD A SINGLE, STINKING WORD* out of them. I wonder why we give them all this money for nothing!
reggers@uwovax.uwo.ca (Reg Quinton) (08/31/89)
In article <171@cdword.UUCP>, root@cdword.UUCP (J. Jay Smith) writes: > My situation is that we've got a Mips 120-5 running 4.01. I've got one modem > on tty3 and one on ttyd16 (digiboard). The modem on tty3 allows dial-in/dial- > out, but does not send SIGHUP to any active process when the line goes down. > The modem on ttyd16 will send SIGHUP, but will not allow uucp to ever send > any characters TO the modem, though it will READ from the modem. I may be off here but I think we have a similar machine. My system manager tells me that of the 4 serial lines on the processor board only 0 and 2 have modem control. If that's true, it certainly would explain part of your problem. This sounds like the machine isn't seeing that the modem is ready to receive data. Your modem should be raising CTS (clear to send) signal to signify that it is ready to receive data. Since it is recognizing the SIGHUP (ie Carrier) perhaps you should strap CTS to it so your machine sees that the line is up AND ready to receive. I usually call in my hardware friends over problems like this and get them to strap on boxes with blinking lights so we can see which signals are there. I'd advise you to do the same. -- Telephone: (519) 661 2151 x6026 (a real person and not a machine) Canada: reggers@uwo.ca (used to be UWO.CDN) BITNET: reggers@uwovax.BITNET (for the ethnocentric) UUCP: reggers@julian.UUCP (...!watmath!julian..)