Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:53:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Kevin Keyser <keyser@clio.rice.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961022185020.6076C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9610222127.AA12591@clio.rice.edu>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Kevin Keyser wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 2.1.0 early this year and have been very > happy with it. It installed cleanly and appears quite stable > and fast. I have scanned much, but certainly not all, of the > various documentation available: FAQs, newsgroups, Greg Lehey's > "The Complete FreeBSD", man pages, etc. There are, however, a > couple of key problems that I have not been able to work out. > First, the hardware: > > 60MHz Intel Pentium (WITHOUT the floating point bug) > AMI Excalibur (EISA/PCI) Motherboard > 32MB core memory (4 8MB SIMMS) > Adaptec 2742T Twin channel Fast SCSI 2 adapter on EISA bus > Seagate ST3655N 520MB Fast SCSI 2 disk (as sd0) on 1st SCSI channel > Seagate ST32550N 2047MB Fast SCSI 2 disk (as sd1) on 2nd SCSI channel > ATI Graphics Ultra Pro Mach32 video card on PCI bus > Toshiba XM-3701TA external 6X CDROM drive (cd0) on 1st SCSI channel > Floppy drives (3.5" and 5.25" as fd0 and fd1 respectively) > MS bus mouse and adapter board > > OS/2 Warp is installed in the first ~470MB of sd0 (HPFS filesystem) > with the rest as FreeBSD swap space (sd0s3b). The first slice of > sd1 is ~1024MB and is where FreeBSD lives. The balance of sd1 is > not in use at this time. Right now I use the OS/2 boot manager to > choose between OSes at boot time (I am aware that FreeBSD also > provides a boot manager and I have no particular reason for not > using it). > > The problems I have are: > > 1) I have a DEC VT220 terminal that I would like to use on sio0. > It is connected with a null modem cable. I changed the > ttyd0 line in /etc/ttys to read: > > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on secure See section 11.3 of the Handbook. The std.9600 profiles are for modems. > 2) I have a modem connected on sio1 and am having limited success > with dialing out through it. As root, I can dial out and > connect fine, but... > > A) How do I configure tip so that regular users can use it > to dial out. Right now, when I invoke tip as a regular > user, I get the messages: > > lock open: No such file or directory > all ports busy Add the users you want to grant access to tip to the dialer group. You had better trust them since they could rack up some serious phone bills :-/ > B) How do I perform zmodem file transfers when dialed out > through tip? I have source for sz and rz but I am not > familiar enough to know how to make them cooperate > with tip. Start the xfer with 'sz file', then hit tilde then control-z to suspend tip, then run 'rz' to receive the file. I think. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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