I know about that trick and tried it.  However, I'm using a Supera 28.8   
modem.  If the modem is powered down (lighting storm) the baud rate on   
the modem is set, by default, to 1200 baud until an AT command at a given   
rate, i.e. 38400, is sent to the modem.  At which point the modem auto   
detects the new baud rate and sets itself to the new rate.

Just in case, no, the Rockwell chipset does not support an AT command to   
preset the baud rate at power up to anything else but 1200.  Reason,   
their major market is the PC world, which typically use packages that   
initialize the modem (i.e. PCPlus, Bitcom, etc.) So they save time and   
money and really don't loose any sales (sad but true).  BTW I know some   
of the developers at Rockwell, and have tried to talk them into adding   
such a feature and they said no.  Oh yes, and there is the add complexity   
of design. (Nice guys though!)

If you knew all of this ignore me, I'm just frustrated and a little   
spoiled by the PC world on certain issues.

jam

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From:  lburns[SMTP:lburns@sasquatch.com]
Sent:  Friday, September 22, 1995 8:42 AM
To:  John Maier
Subject:  Re: Initializing the modem, then starting getty...

On Sep 22,  8:51am, John Maier wrote:
} Subject: Initializing the modem, then starting getty...
}
} This is my problem, every time I start NetBSD, I want to send an
} initialization string to the modem (turn auto answer on) and do it at   
    

} 38400.  I could write a program in C to do just this, however, I would   
    

} have to have an entry like this in my /etc/ttys...
Suggestion: initialize the modem, at&w save the configuration so when
the modem powerss up it is set.  That is what we do here, we have a
couple of them on  NetBSD box that work great.

 -Len