Problems with Solaris 2.7

Steve Kennedy (steve@gbnet.net)
Fri, 26 Nov 1999 11:46:18 +0000


On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 10:41:40PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 11:37:42PM +0000, Steve Kennedy wrote:
> > I'm having problems with vgetty and Solaris 7.
> > Everything works fine below 38400, but above that it
> > fails to detect the voice modem type (in the 1st sets
> > speed was 57600 or 115200).
> Hmmm, maybe a speed mismatch between voice.conf and mgetty.config?  Both
> must have the same "speed <n>" setting (which is a bug, kind of, but it's
> the way it is).

Nope - set them the same, anything above 38400 it wont talk AT ALL to
the modem :(

> > Also should /dev/ttyb or /dev/cua/b be used ?
> I use /dev/term/b, and that seems to work.

/dev/ttyb is linked to /dev/term/b

> > Here's the log
> Doesn't make me too happy - the individual tries are logged with a
> loglevel that's pretty low (too low to make sure what the problem is), but
> to compensate for that, you've sent 10 tries.  That's not too useful...

OK I can put the log level up, the initial tries were with speeds above
38400, both with a Courier and Elsa ...

I'll try that later, maybe a Sun Sparc 20 can't drive the port that
high ? Or Solaris 7 defines rates differently.

Steve

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