UUCP/Ultrix/Penril 8216 (used to be an ugly subject...)

[avolio at decuac.UUCP]

[Why haven't we seen this in mod.computers.vax?  Things still not
working?]

In article <4929 at brl-adm.ARPA>, @EDDIE.MIT.EDU:JBS at DEEP-THOUGHT.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
> I found this message on INFO-VAX.  
> ---
> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 87 13:45:04 est
> From: Scott Shurr <sshurr%wellesley.edu at RELAY.CS.NET>
> Subject: UUCP
> 
> I am attempting to set up uucp on an ULTRIX 1.2 system, using a
> Penril 8216 modem.  My efforts to write an entry in /etc/acucap
> for this modem have failed.  Has anyone out there got an /etc/acucap
> entry for this brand of modem that works?
> 
> I've attempted to debug this by running /usr/lib/uucp/uucico in the
> debug mode with the switch -x9.  When I do this, I get a lot of
> information up to:...

Let me start by saying I don not have a brilliant answer (never do..)
for this, but let me suggest some things.

1.  To debug acucap under Ultrix, set the debug flag on the acucap
entry.  If you entry was:

df112|df124|DF112|DF124|DEC df112:\
	:cr:hu:re:ls:ss=^B:sr=Ready\r\n:sd#250000:di=T:fd#40:\
	:dt=#:dd#50000:os=\r\nAttached\r\n:rs==:

add a "db:" at the end, as in

df112|df124|DF112|DF124|DEC df112:\
	:cr:hu:re:ls:ss=^B:sr=Ready\r\n:sd#250000:di=T:fd#40:\
	:dt=#:dd#50000:os=\r\nAttached\r\n:rs==:db:

2. Do not LINK dialout ports to other names!  (See your release notes
for a note about this.)  Either rename them  (mv /dev/ttyA0 /dev/ttyd0)
or make additional nodes (mknod /dev/ttyd0 c MAJ min).

I hope this helps.

Fred.