From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 13:38:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA12496 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:38:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from io.org (io.org [142.77.70.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA12448 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:38:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.io.org (dyna-9.net7d.io.org [204.92.51.9]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA21128; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:37:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:37:35 -0500 Message-Id: <199601022137.QAA21128@io.org> X-Sender: scouch@io.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Donald Burr From: Stephen Couchman Subject: Eureka, it finally works! ;-))) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk First thanks to all (there were many - Johnathan, Donald, Gary, Barry, and others) who helped me on this. The problem was a faulty serial cable. It seems that the cable worked in DOS, with tip and cu, but not iij-ppp. I tried the new cable with my 1200 baud, and it works. I now have the 28.8 Kb modem. At least I learned a lot about ppp and serial comms in general, and met a bunch of interesting folks. Thanks again -- Stephen At 10:49 AM 1/2/96 -0800, you wrote: >On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Donald Burr wrote: > >> [...my solution...] > >To further elaborate, when you used tip and cu to access your modem, it >worked, because AFAIK tip/cu don't indiscriminately set crtscts on the >port they're accessing. In fact, most programs don't. This is why >/etc/rc.serial exists, so that default parameters for each serial port >can be set. If you had a high speed modem and tried using it with >tip/cu, CRTSCTS would not be enabled, and because the modems weren't >handshaking, you'd end up with a lot of lost data and other nastiness due >to the high modem speed. > ______________________________ Stephen Couchman | scouch@io.org