Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 00:25:38 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Stuart Henderson <sh@eclipse.net.uk> Cc: "James A.Taylor" <jataylor@xmission.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org Subject: Re: user ppp, getty and automatic baud rate detection Message-ID: <199912070025.AAA04984@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Stuart Henderson <sh@eclipse.net.uk> of "Mon, 06 Dec 1999 21:29:44 GMT." <384C2AC8.946F3238@eclipse.net.uk>
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> > I just tried logging in via a regular dial-up
> > terminal application rather than ppp and found
> > that at 19200 I get a login prompt however at
> > other speeds all I get is garbage characters.
>
> okay, your modem is set to switch com port speed to the
> actual line speed. I would take a wild guess that it may have
> been used in a wildcat or pcboard bbs before to have been
> set in that way :) You'll need to play with the nonvolatile
> ram settings in the modem and get it to use the more
> standard "fixed com port speed" config and then std.115200
> should be fine. Until you do this, I think the only speeds
> you'll ever see are 300/1200/2400/4800/9600/19200.
Once the speed has been put in /etc/ttys (and init HUPd), you also
need to connect to the modem (you can use ppp in command mode) at
the same speed and do a few ATs to train it to that speed.
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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