Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 14:51:11 +0000 From: "Þorður Ivarsson" <totii@est.is> To: dg@root.com Cc: Dave Smith <dpsmith@xoom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote power cycle Message-ID: <34B3965F.3B7592E2@est.is> References: <199801070800.AAA08854@implode.root.com>
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David Greenman wrote: > It was quite easy for me to do, but the level of difficulty will depend > on your ability to use a soldering iron and knowledge of electronics. What > I did was reconfigure the hook relay so that the switch simply shorts the > tip/ring wires rather than connect them to the isolation transformer. It Small advice on modems to use! Many of the newer modems do have 'solid state' switching and the tend to not work! Find modem with large relay on and you should just short the transformer at the line side. > took about 10 minutes, most of which was trying to figure out where the > traces ran on the multilayer circuit board. Configured this way, I just plug > a regular RJ11 modular cable in as the 'phone line', with the other end of > the cable hooked up to the reset contacts on wcarchive's motherboard > (actually, it's wired in parallel with the reset switch so that it can > be manually reset as well). -- Þórður Ívarsson Thordur Ivarsson Rafeindavirki Electronic technician Norðurgötu 30 Nordurgotu 30 Box 309 Box 309 602 Akureyri 602 Akureyri Ísland Iceland --------------------------------------------- FreeBSD has good features, Some others are full of unwanted features! ---------------------------------------------
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