Calling out on a modem...

[Aron Burns]

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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