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- From: kline@cs.arizona.edu (Nick Kline)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: strange Zyxel modem problem
- Message-ID: <30288@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 00:17:11 GMT
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- Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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- >> my problem: I seem to overflow my modem or have some strange flow
- >> control problem
- >
-
- >>The default flow control on many UNIX systems is XON/XOFF. Check the serial
- >>port setup and see if "crtscts" (RTS/CTS) is enabled. Alternatively, if
- >>you're logged in via the port, try "stty -a", look at the end of the second
- >>line, and see if it says "crtscts" or "-crtscts".
- >
- >And while we are listing all the things that could conceivably be the
- >problem -- is there any chance the modem cable fails to provide
- >RTS/CTS? That is, does it only have two data lines and a ground line?
- >If so, and if the modem were set to hardware flow control rather than
- >XON/XOFF flow control, that could be your problem.
- >
- >I vaguely recall the ZyXEL defaults to RTS/CTS flow control rather
- >than XON/XOFF. So you would ideally want to be sure you have a cable
- >that carries those signals, and you would want to configure the
- >serial port on the computer to use RTS/CTS flow control.
- >
-
- zyxel uses rts/cts as the default flow control. the command to do this is
- &h3. I have done that. In the modem book, it says for the command
- &R0 or &R1: rts options
- &r1 : modem assumes rts always on, ignores the changes
- &r0 : delay before cts responds to rts's change
-
- &r1 is the default. but after this, it says "This setting is ignored in
- async mode. rts is always used as a hardware flow control in this case".
-
- So it seems not to matter. I tried it anyway and it made no difference.
- I also tried the other &h settings, for xon/xoff and no flow control and
- rts/cts all made no difference
-
- Thanks for all the suggestions. I do have a correct modem cable. For you
- next people, I bought it at NextConnection as a 68040 modem cable. I verified
- today that the rts/cts lines are connected as they should be. I did this
- by looking at the file about.modem.z, which describes the match ups.
-
- So it is not the cable. Then I tried cufb, thinking that perhaps I had
- a bad cufa port. This did not fix the problem.
-
- I know I am using rts/cts on the computer side since I am using cufa, a
- port which explicitly uses rts/cts, right?
-
- Let me give a more detailed example of how it crashes:
-
- I can make it overrun things by catting a large file on the machine
- i am connected to. After a while the modem starts to "retrain" (the hs light
- flashes) and it either gives up or makes it (50/50 chance). Often at
- this point I "+++" the modem and type ati2, the command which prints out
- the state of the modem. Sometimes, the info, which is perhaps 15 lines
- long, is screwed up, in that some parts of it don't come through. Other
- times, the modem goes crazy, and the read_data light becomes constant
- as it sends tons of garbage to my screen. Note that this is all in
- command mode. Nothing should get to the screen when I am typing at
- commands.
-
- For the next person with a zyxel, when your rts/cts stuff is working, does
- the cts light ever blink or dim(because it was off for a sec?)? I ask
- this because mine is steady as a rock.
-
- I am going to try to find someone with a 9600 buad modem and swap and
- see if we still have problems.
-
- -nick
- kline@cs.arizona.edu
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