** 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 cas
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> I don't really understand the reason why either the modem or the serial port would
>change their setting spontaneously.
You are right. They don't.
> 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.
>
** Reply to note from Lefteris Tsintjelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 05 Nov 2002
14:42:44 +0200
>Hi,
Thanks a lot, this solved it, at least for now. However I'm quite sure that this will
happen again, so I'd like to
go through it all in order to solve it for good sooner or later.
>Sa
Hi,
Same pattern of garbage when pressing a key usually means wrong speed
in most cases, or parity/stop/start/data bits. It could be your serial
port or your modem at your end or remote end. Next time try and use -s
115200 with cu. That would set the serial port speed at 115200 and see
what
Hello.
I set up a machine to accept dial-in modem connections according to the suggestions in
the Handbook:
_ I set up my modem so as to lock its speed, don't echo commands, don't give any reply
code and auto-answer;
_ I modified rc.serial so as to set-up /dev/ttyd0 as a modem at 57600 bps;
_ th
