Why is Modem Control always disabled ???
Dietmar Weis
weis at netmbx.UUCP
Fri May 24 22:31:41 AEST 1991
You enable it in the ttys file with "... on secure modem shared ...".
You verify it with "file /dev/tty??", it says "modem control on" or
"modem control off".
So now, you have the shared flag for use of the line for both outgoing
and incoming calls.
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If you connect to the modem with cu, do sth eg. dial out and then quit the
cu session --> the modem control is off !!
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Now you have to edit ttys and send init a kill -HUP a dozen times `til you
finally managed it, to enable modem control again - until the next session
with cu.
What I wanna know is WHY is it so complicated, HOW can I work around this.
It`s also the same w/o the shared flag, that means turn getty on and off
for incoming and outgoing connections.
I really hate it; pls tell me that I`m doing sth wrong (and what) instead of
"you have to live with it, it`s the ugly tty driver".
(This occurs under Ultrix 3.1, 4.0 and 4.1 on at least MV2000, MV3900,
DSys3100 and DSys5100 at the local 25 pin serial port.)
Pls email, I`ll summarize if there is interest.
Thank you very much.
Dietmar
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