curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) (04/11/91)
I'm running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 on a 286. I have an NS16550AN on com port
2.
Recently I tried to dial in to my dialin line and was unable to do
so. The modem would pick up the phone and connect, and often I would
get the login prompt, but then the computer would immediately send a
short string of garbage and hang up. When I tried doing a 'cu -l
tty2a dir' to check out the modem settings cu would say "Connect" and
then immediately claim that carrier had been dropped and hang up.
Rebooting fixed the problem. Is there a permanant fix? Is it in the
tty driver? Would switching over to FAS208 fix the problem? (It's on
my list of things as soon as I get a high speed modem, anyway, so that
I can use the buffer on the 16550.)
Thanks for your help.
--
| "It is actually a feature of UUCP that the map of
curt@cynic.uucp | all systems in the network is not known anywhere."
curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca | --Berkeley Mail Reference Manual (Kurt Schoens)gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) (04/13/91)
curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: >I'm running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 on a 286. I have an NS16550AN on com port >2. > >Recently I tried to dial in to my dialin line and was unable to do >so. The modem would pick up the phone and connect, and often I would >get the login prompt, but then the computer would immediately send a >short string of garbage and hang up. When I tried doing a 'cu -l >tty2a dir' to check out the modem settings cu would say "Connect" and >then immediately claim that carrier had been dropped and hang up. I don't know whether this applies to Xenix, but according to my getty man page (ISC UNIX) there is a `-h' switch. If you omit it, getty will hang up the line just before it sets the baud rate. This seems to be what is happening to you. Is it possible under Xenix to start a getty with the `-h' switch on a tty line? I think I remember that Xenix doesn't use an inittab file, therefore I'm not sure where to put the `-h' switch. Hope that helps. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | INET : gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de Berlin |---------------------------------------------------------------- Germany | UUCP : ...!unido!fub!geminix.in-berlin.de!gemini
curt@nstar (04/16/91)
In article <NZXP29F@geminix.in-berlin.de> gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) writes: > curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: > > >I'm running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 on a 286. I have an NS16550AN on com port > >2. > > > >Recently I tried to dial in to my dialin line and was unable to do > >so. The modem would pick up the phone and connect, and often I would > >get the login prompt, but then the computer would immediately send a > >short string of garbage and hang up. When I tried doing a 'cu -l > >tty2a dir' to check out the modem settings cu would say "Connect" and > >then immediately claim that carrier had been dropped and hang up. > > I don't know whether this applies to Xenix, but according to my > getty man page (ISC UNIX) there is a `-h' switch. If you omit it, > getty will hang up the line just before it sets the baud rate. > This seems to be what is happening to you. Not likely. The line worked perfectly for quite a while, and then had this problem on and off for a week. Then the problem turned itself on permanantly. Rebooting fixed it. I don't think it's shown itself since then. cjs -- | "It is actually a feature of UUCP that the map of curt@cynic.uucp | all systems in the network is not known anywhere." curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca | --Berkeley Mail Reference Manual (Kurt Schoens)