Garbage on modem lines. (fwd)
MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Wed, 11 Dec 1996 17:31:02 -0800 (PST)
Once upon a time Patrick C. Wolf shaped the electrons to say...
>> The last two or three times I have dailed into the server I have gotten
>> a screen full of "nonsense" - symbols, letters and numbers and I am not
>> connected. When I try dailing again I do get connected. Why does this
>I seems as though when the previous modem drops the connection my
>modem does not get reset.
>Any clues? I'm using USR Sportsters connected to a PM2ER.
It sounds like the modems are not set to reset on loss of DTR. When a
call is terminated the PM will reset a port, including dropping DTR. This
should signal the modem to reset and load settings from NVRAM.
-MZ
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