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From: loodvrij@cyb.fred.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: modem with netbsd help needed
Keywords: telebit worldblazer modem netbsd
Message-ID: <CD0Kvt.2A6@cyb.fred.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 02:42:50 GMT
References: <1993Sep6.064333.5177@informix.com> <CCxn58.Cu3@taronga.com>
Organization: Cacophonous Yodellers' BBS (907) 338-4942 7-E-1
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In article <CCxn58.Cu3@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Unless you have a uugetty replacement (that does the uucp locking handshake)
>you have to install something that provides bidirectional ports (such as the
>sio driver in FreeBSD), so far as I can tell. I can only assume that people
>running NetBSD have dedicated dial-in/dial-out lines.


I use cdg's drivers with NetBSD 0.8, with few difficulties.  com.c didn't
*quite* patch properly; a few hunks failed, but I managed to do it manually
with not too much diffuculty.  If you want (the original poster that is),
I could mail you my com.c (though I've messed with it a bit...)

Bruce
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