Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 22:24:44 -0500 From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modem not working Message-ID: <19980129222444.64692@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980129130434.209B-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>; from Brett Taylor on Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 01:21:28PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980129130434.209B-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 01:21:28PM -0700, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi all, > > I have recently bought a 2nd machine and moved the older one home for use > there so I can throw away my 286. At work I have a direct connection so > I've never had to mess w/ a modem under FreeBSD - now I do! I followed (I > thought) the handbook and tried to use both tip and cu to dial in. Here's > the hardware first: > > P166 running 2.2-stable > Motorola Bitsurfer 14.4 modem > > Dmesg shows that my serial ports (sio0 and sio1) are found. I have a > /dev/cuaa0 w/ the correct permissions (as compared to those given in the > handbook) and tip and cu are both of the right permissions for me to > execute. I've also edited /etc/remote and given general configurations, > following those of the handbook, for 57600 bps (this is the highest rate > the modem can handle w/ compression). Here's the output when I run the > various commands I've tried: > > tip -57600 9946972 (where I have a tip57600 desc. in /etc/remote) > > -> uu_lock: creat error: Permission denied > all ports busy > > cu 9946972 -s 57600 (again w/ an appropriate entry in /etc/remote) > > -> cu: no matching ports > > cu -l /dev/cuaa0 -s 57600 > > -> Connected. (and I can then enter commands although I > haven't been able to figure out how to make it dial out yet) Perhaps ATDT1234567 or ATDP1234567 where `1234567' is the number you want to dial. Note the first form (ATDT) is for tone dialing and the second form (ATDP) is for pulse dialing. > > So .... am I doing something wrong or is something misconfigured? > > I haven't tried ppp (I think I could do this from my present machine at > work - school won't provide ppp from them directly). > > > ********************************************************* > Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu > http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ > -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr.
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