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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Modem Dial-up Date: 15 Jun 1996 16:20:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4punrg$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <jsinDsnJLH.Kv5@netcom.com> <4pe0i1$4s8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <jsinDst1pq.6HL@netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jsin@netcom.com (John Sin) wrote: > Unfortunately, Zoom 14.4 faxmodem doesn't seem to be able to lock the > DTE speed, unlike the USR Courier modems I used to have access to... > Sigh! Ick. You can work around this problem by using mgetty (it's in the ports, watch out for ``mgetty+sendfax''). This is a getty replacement that does understand the concept of ``init strings''. While i think that this concept has a few drawbacks (like the requirement to use the dialup tty device [/dev/ttyd*] for outbound calls, and the requirement of correctly working tty lock files for all programs), it should save your life with broken modems. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)