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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 1996 23:50:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@nike.efn.org>
To:        Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>, hm@altona.hamburg.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multi-Port Async Cards
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.91.960128234003.9518I-100000@nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <199601290138.DAA07721@katiska.clinet.fi>

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On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Heikki Suonsivu wrote:

> 
> Terry Lambert writes:
>  > > mgetty would be useful as it can
>  > > actively reply calls instead of modems answering automatically, thus
>  > > avoiding callers getting modem answer when the terminal server has crashed
>  > > and won't be there.
>  > 
>  > A properly configured modem and getty will do this as well.
>  > 
>  > A properly configured modem will not answer unless DTR is asserted.
> 
>  > When the open count coes from 1->0, the DTR is dropped.  This causes a
>  > correctly configured modem to reset (reset on on-to-off transition of DTR).
> 
> Rockwell chipset based modems (all the ones I have seen) don't have DTR
> option which would allow this.  It can either reset itself when DTR goes
> off (&D3), but then it will answer the phone even when DTR is off.  If it
> does not reset itself (&D2), it works correctly with DTR.  The lesson is
> not to use rockwell based modems, but they didn't have much competition
> until last six months.

well... the rockwell based modems that I have (the supra line) all 
support the dtr high to low to reset...  just do a simple &d3... this 
will have the modem do a soft reset (atz) on dtr loss...  this is on both 
the 14.4k and the 28.8k modems of supra....

John-Mark

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