** Reply to note from Lefteris Tsintjelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 06 Nov 2002 20:04:07 +0200
>> Let's deal with the serial port: it's initialized at boot time by rc.serial, so a >reboot should have set it up right. >> In any case wouldn't "sh /etc/rc.serial" be enough to solve the matter in case for >some reasons it wasn't >> properly configured? >It all depends on how you want your serial port set. I think it is >initially set at 9600. I modified rc.serial so adding a "modem ..." line, according to the comments; this should set it to 57600. >> Furthermore, I often find that cu will only run once; after that, I get a "line in >use" message, although ps shows no >> process using /dev/cuaa0 (there is getty on /dev/ttyd0, but that's also true the >first time I run cu). Is there >> anything I can do to solve this without rebooting? >Try resetting the modem instead. This won't help: I asked someone to power the modem down and back up (it's a remote machine for me), but cuaa0 was still "in use". >Try this: >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serial.html I had already read that carefully. >Keep also in mind that by setting the serial port to a speed doesn't >necessarily mean setting the modem to that speed also. All modern modems >are auto detect so by simply typing anything to it the modem's >parameters are auto set. However, I would recommend to lock your serial >port AND modem's serial speed to a fixed rate and best one is 115200 (or >even higher if you have), specially if you are using your modem's >hardware compression. I can't recall the AT commands of your 3Com but I >think your modem might have some online help. I think its AT$. This is what I thought I had done. I'll check again with the modem. bye & Thanks av. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
