Re: flexfax: Probemodem errors?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, George Zeigler wrote:


> Hello,
> 	I ran probemodem.  I have tons of 
> "/bin/stty: standard input: unable to perform all requested operations"
> lines.  Also, a bunch of Errors.  Is this a concern?
> 	My modem is a LinkSys 10/100 + 56k combo PCMCIA card
> 	The output of probemodem is shown below.

We've been seeing stty errors on some systems mentioned lately:
Try running probemodem with "sh -x probemodem" for more details on
when the stty is failing.

> Serial port that modem is connected to []? ttyS1
> Hmm, there does not appear to be an fuser command on your machine.
> This means that I am unable to insure that all processes using the
> modem have been killed.  I will keep going, but beware that you may
> have competition for the modem.

Why is it not finding a fuser command?

> Now we are going to probe the tty port.  This takes a few seconds,
> so be patient.  Note that if you do not have the modem cabled to
> the port, or the modem is turned off, this may hang (just go and
> cable up the modem or turn it on, or whatever).

> Probing for best speed to talk to modem: 38400 OK.
> /bin/stty: standard input: unable to perform all requested operations

And this is troubling. It's probably the "stty 0" command.

Definitely stick with Class 1 mode for now: Class 2 and 2.0 are not
well done on a lot of modems...

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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