stark@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Brian D. Stark) (10/31/90)
After installing XENIX 2.3.1 on a 386 33mhz machine, and playing with it awhile I have run into the following snares, and would greatly appreciate anyones input, (Please keep it nice :-)). 1) Using a computone multi-serial (8) board we are unable to configure the board to accept modem dial-ins. We have been able to set up dumb terminals to the board without problem. Our XENIX documentation states that modem lines are only supported on COM1 and COM2. The Computone Documentation, believes otherwise, but hasn't been able to back this up yet. If anyone familiar with Computone boards has any info, please let us know (an 800 # for Computone would be great). 2) When dialing in from COM2 our connect doesn't seem to be cycling through to the correct baud rate i.e. if I'm enabled at mode 2 (1200>>2400>>300) I can login at 1200 baud, but get garbage at 2400. I get the opposite results in mode 3 (2400>>300>>1200). I've tried fiddling with the gettydefs file but haven't got any positive results, any suggestions? 3) I'm also having trouble accessing my DOS partition fdisk (XENIX) shows the partition as unknown, do I need to repartition my disk? Thanx in advance, if you have any ideas on any of these problems (I'm sure they can be chalked up to inexperience) please send e-mail to: stark@ucselx.sdsu.edu If response is great enough I will post any useful info for other novices like myself. Brian
shark@asylum.SF.CA.US (Dylan Rhodes) (11/06/90)
In article <1990Oct30.202445.3720@ucselx.sdsu.edu> stark@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Brian D. Stark) writes: >After installing XENIX 2.3.1 on a 386 33mhz machine, and playing with it >awhile I have run into the following snares, and would greatly appreciate >anyones input, (Please keep it nice :-)). > >1) Using a computone multi-serial (8) board we are unable to configure > the board to accept modem dial-ins. We have been able to set up > dumb terminals to the board without problem. Our XENIX documentation > states that modem lines are only supported on COM1 and COM2. > The Computone Documentation, believes otherwise, but hasn't > been able to back this up yet. If anyone familiar with Computone > boards has any info, please let us know (an 800 # for Computone would > be great). Although the documentation does say this, it is incorrect. With my multi-port board, I use the modem-control tty's (in the Digiboard's case, ttyi1A-ttyi1H) to talk to my modems with no problems. > >2) When dialing in from COM2 our connect doesn't seem to be cycling through > to the correct baud rate i.e. if I'm enabled at mode 2 (1200>>2400>>300) > I can login at 1200 baud, but get garbage at 2400. I get the opposite > results in mode 3 (2400>>300>>1200). I've tried fiddling with the > gettydefs file but haven't got any positive results, any suggestions? Do you mean that the modem doesn't cycle even when the user sends a BREAK character? I've noticed similar results, but telling users to hit BREAK (or their comm program's equivalent) works. I haven't been able to get the modem to cycle automatically - I'm not sure if it's possible under Xenix. > >Brian -- -= Dylan Rhodes. decwrl!asylum!herctec!shark or shark@herctec.com =- -= I really should be doing something a bit more useful right now. =-