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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:28:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Joshua Kneubuhl <joshk@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: wacky modem echo!
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Joshua Kneubuhl wrote:

> I'm having some strange problems getting a modem to work with FreeBSD.  I
> originally started by attempting to get ppp up and running-  after a
> vanilla 2.2.7 install.  The modem is a PNP USR 56k modem, which was set to
> use com3 by Windows 98.  ppp has no trouble recognizing the presence of
> the modem on cuaa2, but has a VERY strange behavior when talking to the
> device.  (I can duplicate all these problems with minicom- I don't think
> ppp is the culprit, and everything works perfectly under windows98.)

[..]

> and talk to the modem, but the modem does not send any characters to the
> console unless prompted by the next character in the input from the
> console.

Make sure you do not have multiple serial communications programs running.
Also check that the interrupt to the modem is set properly and no other
device is sharing that IRQ.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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