The ghastly trick is:

occult# chown uucp:dialer /dev/tty01
occult# cu -l /dev/tty01 -s 19200
Connected.
[At this point I type ~ and a control-z]
^Z
occult# stty -f /dev/tty01 clocal
occult# fg

i think there's some debug option to cu that does local for you too...?

d

ps: this was typed in from memory, as my modem is in use at the moment ;)

On Sun, 31 May 1998, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 07:20:19 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@fb.sa.enteract.com>
> To: Paul Thompson <paul@abyss.co.nz>
> Cc: 'MacBSD' <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: Modem
> 
> On Sun, 31 May 1998, Paul Thompson wrote:
> 
> > When I try pppd or cu it doesn't even get to dialing the modem, so I don't 
> > think that it's my settings in the pppd setup.
> > 
> > When I try CU I get the following:
> > 
> > purgatory# cu -l /dev/tty00 -s 19200
> > Connected.
> > cu: write: Input/output error
> > 
> > Disconnected.
> > purgatory#
> 
> I've never been able to get cu to work, either. But pppd and kermit both
> work fine.
> 
> > under pppd I get Connect Script failed. (Not a lot of help :-) ). I have 
> > even rebuilt all the device files. So my basic question is how do I get 
> > this damn modem to go? :-) BTW, if it's important the modem works just 
> > great under MacOS 7.5
> 
> Perhaps it's your setup string, in your chat script. Try adding the "-v" 
> option to "chat". Then you'll be able to see where the modem is giving an
> unexpected response by viewing /var/log/messages. If you see "ERROR" after
> AT&F&SOMETHING, try changing the corresponding line in your chat
> invocation to the same thing you're using under MacOS. One way to get
> _that_ is to set the "verbose" checkbox in the PPP control panel options,
> then "view log" from the pull-down menu. The other would be to open your
> modem script with a text editor. 
> 
> The chat invocation could be in /etc/ppp/options, it could be in
> /etc/ppp/peers/isp-name (None of the kits do this.), or, if you're
> invoking pppd with a script, it could be in the command line that contains
> pppd. 
> 
> BTW... I see that message routinely, whenever I have a voice-mail message
> waiting. The wierd dialtone make the modem report "NO DIALTONE", and that
> triggers the "ABORT NO" line in my chat script. In your case, you'll just
> have to view the output of chat, to see what your modem is trying to say. 
> 
> 

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