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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!pagesat!indirect.com!garbled From: garbled@indirect.com (Tim Rightnour) Subject: Re: modem with netbsd help needed Message-ID: <1993Sep11.224907.2334@indirect.com> Keywords: telebit worldblazer modem netbsd Organization: Internet Direct Inc. -- (602) 274-0100 References: <1993Sep6.064333.5177@informix.com> <CCxn58.Cu3@taronga.com> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 22:49:07 GMT Lines: 13 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. This is true.. What I have done to alleviate this problem is to write 2 ttys files.. and name them ttys.on ttys.off. then when I want to dialout.. i just replace ttys with the correct one, and reboot. Annoying.. but effective.