From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 15:42:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3FD1156E7 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 15:42:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from williamsl@home.com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990908224148.HWTD16271.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE> for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 15:41:48 -0700 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:33:46 -0400 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.34a) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <14773.990908@home.com> To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re[3]: finding a modem In-reply-To: <1673.990908@home.com> References: <1673.990908@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know it's bad form to reply to your own messages but I had some email from Wayne Self which reminded me that I didn't tell you exactly what I am dealing with. I have a P2/200/64mb/2gb running a recent version of STABLE (3.2 I think) with only video and ethernet cards and both serial ports turned on in the BIOS. The kernel recognizes both PORTS (sio0 & sio1) when it boots but I still have the situation described here. Also possibly of note is the fact that I am still running kernel.GENERIC on this box as I haven't had time to recompile it yet. Surely running the generic kernel wouldn't cause it to not talk to a serial device? /snips for clarity/ Ok I dug out the cu man page and followed your directions which was the same as my original plan to talk to each port but now I have run up on something stranger. Whenever I cu -l/dev/cuaa0 [-s115200 or -s1200] (this meaning with no speed option or with either 115200 or 1200 speed option) I get "Connected." but that's all I ever receive from the port. I issue several AT commands (ATZ ATE0 AT ATZ ATE1 AT ATZ ~.) ((all followed by a of course)) and I get nothing. Next I do the same thing with cuaa1 and I never get "Connected." so I am assuming my modem is on cuaa0 since it connects but I cannot successfully send commands to it. The modem is a USR 28.8 Sportster and if I recall my AT commands ATE1 enables local echo from the modem, but even there I have myself covered by having an ATE0 as well. -- Ben BW> On or about Wednesday, September 08, 1999, sometime around 3:01:29 PM, you said: WS>> On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:46:07PM -0400, Ben Williams wrote: >>> I help to remotely administer a FreeBSD server that recently got an >>> external modem addition but I don't know which port they plugged it in >>> to. What utility can I use to 'talk' to the port (I would talk to each >>> until I got a response) or what other method do I have of finding this >>> new modem? >>> >>> TIA >>> -- >>> Ben WS>> cu will talk to the port. WS>> man cu WS>> to attach to a modem on COM1: WS>> cu -l /dev/cuaa0 WS>> - wayne BW> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org BW> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message