From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 09:54:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F2F37B401 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E8343FA3 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) Received: from localhost.localdomain (12-230-74-101.client.attbi.com[12.230.74.101](untrusted sender)) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2003071516544301400s71tbe>; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:54:43 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6FGvDH3034064; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:57:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6FGv0ij034061; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) To: References: From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:57:00 -0700 In-Reply-To: (fbsd user's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:18:11 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modem replies to commands mostly not seen. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:54:46 -0000 "fbsd_user" writes: > I have a USR sportster 14.4 external serial modem which works fine > under FBSD 4.8. > > Dip switches 3-7-8 are set to 'on' which is down, all others are set > to off which is up. > 3 = display result codes > 7 = load factory defaults > 8 = smart mode Which my 14.4 internal's manual recommends for software flow control (which is recommended only if the cable doesn't support hardware handshaking which almost all cables do support). Except it recommends switch 5 be on/down too. It doesn't bother to describe the switches, but my other manual says it's for "auto answer" so it's position shouldn't matter for this problem. Of course, my internal modem has no switches at all, so it can't help with the internal modem problem. FreeBSD surely should support hardware flow control (it's in "stty"), but I guess I can try an XON/XOFF configuration; I don't have a distinct memory of trying that on the external modem. > Modem has to be powered on before you boot FBSD box modem is cabled > to. Now, THAT could be my problem in the case of the external modem. I thought the drivers were smarter than that; rebooting is nasty, when serial lines are hot-pluggable. I'll try the external modem again. > again. Can you run mswindows on the pc to verify serial port and > modem work. I've no mswindows to run, but I've tried three different serial ports on the motherboard and ISA card. I've probably tried the other things you suggested; I hoped there would be some hints about software configuration that I had missed. But I can do more experiments with other modems and other computers and Linux to determine whether the problem is in the hardware or software. Thanks for the hints.