From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 7 11:19:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B06314DF3; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:18:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1959 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:12:04 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-7) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:12:04 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: "James A.Taylor" Cc: Brian Somers , Stuart Henderson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user ppp, getty and automatic baud rate detection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, James A.Taylor wrote: > > > > 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 [ ... ] > > 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's suggestion to train the modem to the new speed was most > helpful. The only problem I have is that if the modem loses power > you have to re-train it before it will answer. Is their a way to get > around this need to re-train or automatically train it before the > modem answers each caller? mgetty will do this when init loads it after a power up and after every call. It will also log it so you can be sure it was done. Look at your modem manual as some modems (Codex, MultiTech, ZyXEL, etc...) allow you to lock the DTE speed in EEROM. - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message