Calling out on a modem...
Aron Burns
aronb at gkcl.ists.ca
Tue Oct 2 10:16:11 AEST 1990
In article <91 at mq.COM> alan at mq.COM (Alan H. Mintz) writes:
>In article <2417 at gmuvax2.gmu.edu>, jnorman at gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Sci-Fi) writes:
>> I recently became root on a 386 Xenix system with a DigiBoard
>> installed... (added 8 com ports)... They work fine as incoming
>> lines, but if I try to call out on them, I either get errors, or loss
>> the Term Ready signal on the modem... So comes the question...
>>
>> How do I configure a port for calling out or, better yet, calling out
>> and receiving calls?
>
>solution is to use the non-modem-control device for calling out. Naturally,
>you need to write a script to disable the modem-control device, do the
>cu, and then enable the modem-control device.
>
this will only work if you know in advance which tty will be used. In the
case of pooled modems, you don't know in advance ( you could find out with
uustat and awk... what a kludge )
a cleaner solution is to obtain an intelligent card that supports
in/out dialing on the same port. I know for a fact that Equinox Megaport
does this, and am told the the Specialix card will as well. The Computone
( driver version 4.40, firmware 3.14 ) does not. it appears that
-most- do not...based on previous discussions.
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