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- From: greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik)
- Subject: AT&T 3B2 (and related) Frequently Asked Questions and Answers 2/2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.234318.29742@gagme.chi.il.us>
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- Organization: GAGME Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:43:18 GMT
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- Archive-name: 3b2-faq/part2
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 17 What are the pinouts of those phone-like serial connectors?
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The connectors 3B2's use are called RJ-45. They are 8 conductor
- telephone like connectors, and lucky for us, are pretty standard.
- You can either buy the cables and connectors from AT&T for an arm
- and a leg, or elsewhere. I don't know about the cables, since I've
- never bought them from anyone but AT&T, but I have made my own
- RS-232 connectors with excellent results.
-
- The following is an excellent description of the RJ-45 port on the
- 3B2:
-
- From: rthomas@hakatac.almanac.bc.ca (Robert N Thomas)
-
- Looking into the 8 pin modular RJ-45 jack you'll see that pin 1
- should be on the right.
-
- Diagram of what you should see when looking
- at an 8 PIN modular jack connector.
-
- +----------+
- | 87654321 |
- | |
- +--+ +--+
- | |
- +----+
-
- Ok, not all 3B2 8 pin modular jack connectors are created "EQUAL".
- These beasties are used for running StarLan 1MBit, EPORTS cards,
- PORTS cards, as well as for running ETHERNET 10MBits as well.
-
- The pin outs for the two modular jack cables on the back of the
- 3B2, as well as for the PORTS card should be as follows:
-
- PIN Lead Direction Explanation
- ===== ========== ============= ========================
- 1 PROT GRD Ground
- 2 reserved Not Connected
- 3 TXD0 Out Transmit Data
- 4 DTR0 Out Data Terminal Ready
- 5 RXD0 In Receive Data
- 6 DCD0 In Data Carrier Detect
- 7 SIG GRD Signal Ground
- 8 reserved Not Connected
-
- The 2 modular jacks on the back of your machine should be labeled
- console and contty. If your talking about a PORTS card, here is
- what one looks like:
-
- Centronics connector
- for Parallel Printer
- |
- \|/
- +------------+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+
- \ / | | | | | | | |
- \________/ +-__-+ +-__-+ +-__-+ +-__-+
-
- ^ ^ ^ ^
- The above 4 RJ45 connectors are for
- plugging serial terminals into your 3B2.
-
- The EPORTS card is card that has 8 RJ45 connectors (8 pin modular
- jacks) on it. This card is where you would want to plug a high
- speed modem onto your system, because the above connectors DO NOT
- SUPPORT HARDWARE FLOW CONTROL. The PIN OUTS for the EPORTS card
- is as follows:
-
- PIN Lead Direction Explanation
- ===== ========== ============= ========================
- 1 PROT GRD Ground
- 2 CTS Out Clear to Send
- 3 TXD0 Out Transmit Data
- 4 DTR0 Out Data Terminal Ready
- 5 RXD0 In Receive Data
- 6 DCD0 In Data Carrier Detect
- 7 SIG GRD Signal Ground
- 8 RTS In Request to send
-
- * NOTES:
-
- CTS & RTS (if you have them).
- Most 3B2 systems need to do the following to enable hardware
- flow control. Otherwise the 3B2 will ignore RTS & CTS.
- Also see the FAQ item about handing high speed modems on
- EPORTS cards for more detailed information.
-
- epstty hfc <-- XON/XOFF flow control must be disabled
- before you do this. The stty command is
- one way to disable XON/XOFF. Line
- DISCIPLINES are another way to do this.
- See etc/gettydefs file.
-
- DTR0 notes. {3B2 uses this to signal DISCONNECT}
-
- When the 3B2 is active on the port (waiting for someone
- to logon to the port or whatever.), DTR is active. When
- the 3B2 wishes to DISCONNECT (ie, too many wrong passwords,
- or the user logs off the port), it will lower DTR momentarily.
- If you are trying to get a modem to work, you might want
- the modem to DISCONNECT the user when DTR is dropped..
-
- DCD0 notes. {Used to tell 3B2 that the user has DROPPED CARRIER}
-
- When the DCD is set inactive, the 3B2 will assume that the
- user has either turned off the terminal, or dropped carrier.
- If this occurs, the user is logged off the system, and
- background tasks are aborted. If DCD is inactive, be
- aware that NONE of the standard AT&T provided utilities
- are capable of sending anything to the device. There is
- a way to get around this in the more recent releases of
- the 3B2's OS. See your admin documentation for details.
-
- Otherwise, in the case of a MODEM, when the user drops
- carrier, you want the modem to "momentarily" lower this
- DCD0 just long enough for the 3B2 to realize that the user
- has dropped carrier. The modem should then Re-ENABLE DCD0,
- so that the 3B2 will be able to send data to the modem.
- {needed for cu, and outbound UUCP to work correctly in
- older releases of the OS}
-
- Most semi-decent modems are capable of handling DCD and
- DTR in a 3B2 friendly manner. I have done this with PEP's,
- USR HST's, and MicroComm 9600 AX modems, without incident.
-
- From: pen@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (paul.e.nepermann)
-
- Here are the pinouts for the connectors from the 8 pin modular to
- the 25 pin adapters.
-
- 8 pin modular to 25 pin RS232C Terminal/Printer
- 8 pin modular to 25 pin RS232C ACU Modem
-
- | Terminal/Printer | ACU Modem
- 8 pin side | 25 pin/male | 25 pin/female | 25 pin
- | | |
- 1 FG | FG 1 | FG 1 | FG 1
- 2 CTS (in) | RTS 4 | RTS 4 | CTS 5
- 3 TXD (out) | RXD 3 | RXD 3 | TXD 2
- 4 DTR (out) | DCD 8 | DCD 8 | DTR 20
- 5 RXD (in) | TXD 2 | RXD 2 | RXD 3
- 6 DCD (in) | DTR 20 | DTR 20 | DCD 8
- | DSR 6 | |
- 7 SG | SG 7 | SG 7 | SG 7
- 8 RTS (out) | CTS 5 | CTS 5 | RTS 4
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 18 What is the u3b. newsgroup heirarchy?
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Don't worry about it, you're not missing anything. It's an almost
- completely dead heirarchy that used to be about 3B2's and 3B1's.
- Discussions about 3B2's have migrated to comp.sys.att, and discussions
- about 3B1's have migrated to comp.sys.3b1.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: 19 What is the proper way to rebuild the kernel after tuning
- kernel parameters?
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- # cp /unix /oldunix
- # cd /etc/master.d
-
- Edit your kernel parameters
-
- # cd /boot
- # mkboot -k KERNEL
- # cd /
- # sysadm firmware
-
- Once in firmware mode, have the 3B2 boot using /etc/system
-
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