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- Subj: tls042 - USR 144 Sportster dialer
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- This tls will provide a high speed, reliable dialer for USR 144 Sportster
- and USR 144 Sportster fax modems. It will most likely work for Couriers
- with no modifications.
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- This will enable you to use cu, uucp and ppp at full speed. In addition, it
- will allow dialin users to get a clean prompt right away with no hassles.
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- For those of you technically inclined, the dialer binary is general purpose
- and doesn't have any sportster specific settings hard coded. All it does is
- lock the DTE rate at 38400 and translate all modem connect messages to report
- a 38400 connection. Only the configuration file in /etc/default would need
- to be modified to make this work for another modem. The only requirement is
- that it support a fixed DTE rate and automatically set the DCE rate
- as needed by the remote modem. Since unix sees only a 38400 baud device,
- there is no need for gettydefs baud cycling. In addition, outbound calls
- don't need to specify a baud rate. Source is included for reference. The
- only thing interesting in the /etc/default/atdialUSR144 parameter file are
- the extreme measures used to make sure the sportster gets reset (S13 settings).
- Those are necessary because some ROM versions have trouble recognizing
- a dial tone after a cold power on. Fully resetting the modem avoids this
- problem.
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- questions/comments to darrent@sco.com
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