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From: "GDB" <g-d-b@freegates.be>
To: "John G Ineson" <john@ineson.net>
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Subject: Re: PPP / chat script problems: PART IV: A NEW HOPE
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:41:09 +0200
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Thanks for the advice. I - temporarely - removed FreeBSD :-) and I'm working
on other things right now. But I'm gonna try some things when I've got the
time.

----- Original Message -----
From: John G Ineson <john@ineson.net>
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Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 5:15 AM
Subject: Re: PPP / chat script problems: PART IV: A NEW HOPE


> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:03:32 GMT, "GDB" <g-d-b@freegates.be> wrote:
>
> >No, doesn't work. The command ATE1 means "enable command echo". In ppp,
> >after <term>, I can type in commands, but the commands aren't echoed. For
> >example, when I type in AT<enter>, in reality, it goes like this:
> >
> >step        what I type    what appears on screen
> >1.           A
> >2.           T                    A
> >3.           <enter>          AT
> >4.           <enter>          OK
>
> Sometimes a device wants to send information (in this case echoing
> your commands and OKs) to the CPU. The obvious approach is to
> repeatedly poll the device, but that could be problematic, say if you
> wanted to use your CPU for anything else  8-)
>
> Since most people do have other jobs in mind, computers use
> interrupts - little "Oi!" messages that devices can send to the
> CPU. You are observing a delay because the interrupt mechanism is
> not working - consequentially, the CPU doesn't receive any waiting
> bytes until it talks to the device to send the next char.
>
> >...
> >sio3: configured irq 9 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>
> Et voila - the CPU is listening on one IRQ and the modem is sending
> stuff to another.
>
> >sio3 at 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 9 on isa
> >...
> >
> >Is that ok?
>
> No. Your modem is not on IRQ 9. Find out what it is on, boot -c and
> adjust the sio3 IRQ setting accordingly.
>
> HTH
>
> J
>
> --
> John G Ineson - john@ineson.net
> (The Real Kilduc)
>
>



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