Subject: Re: Problems with pppd
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/19/1997 13:02:34
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> > This is the same thing that my PB145 does.  Interesting that it's
> > generally only happening on powerbooks.  Any chance there's something
> > eccentric about the powerbooks' serial ports that make them work for most
> > things, but flake with ppp?

<snip>

> This is with an internal modem? Maybe it's not asserting DCD, or it's

Mine's w/ an external, dunno about the duo.

> doing it differently. The ppp system will expect DCD to be asserted by
> the modem. I hope it's not that Apple put the DCD connection in a
> different register...

Somehow, that wouldn't surprise me....  :-)


David

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