RE: [9fans] pcmcia modems

RE: [9fans] pcmcia modems

[presotto]

In my plan9.ini, I have:

serial0=type=com port=0x2e8 irq=9

You may want to use a different irq, up to you.
That's the one xircom's help file recommended.

If you're using ppp, don't use telco.  Ppp just opens
up the modem and lets you type at it.  It's a failure
of vision that I'll fix in some fictional second life.

Run ppp as:

	ip/ppp -ufb 115200 -p '#t'/eia000

and when it wants you to type something, just
go for

	atdt<telephone number>

The carriage return is generated by typing control-m.

I'm about to do a little scripting language or steal someone
else's so that dialing is easier.

The only thing we use telco for is receiving and sending
faxes.  It should figure out the modem type.  If you want to
use it, just

	telco -vs 115200 /dev/eia000 &

somewhere in termrc or cpurc.  After that, any call to
dial() with a string starting with telco! will dial out.

[9fans] USB floppies: key.c

[Boyd Roberts]

ahh, now i know why the nvram is on the floppy.

chicken and egg:

    /*
161  *  return offset of first file block
162  *
163  *  This is a very simplistic dos file system.  It only
164  *  works on floppies, only looks in the root, and only
165  *  returns a pointer to the first block of a file.
166  *
167  *  This exists for cpu servers that have no hard disk
168  *  or nvram to store the key on.
169  *
170  *  Please don't make this any smarter: it stays resident
171  *  and I'ld prefer not to waste the space on something that
172  *  runs only at boottime -- presotto.
173  */
174 static long
175 finddosfile(int fd, char *file)

i think i know how to kludge around it.

thanks for the LXR!  at the job i don't have the time to spend
too much time on it.  at home, with my ADSL, i do.

--
Boyd Roberts                            boyd@psycho-basket-case.org

    ``I come over here to kill them cocksuckers, not work for 'em''

          -- Moon Dog, _Pettibone's Law_, John Keene

 

RE: [9fans] pcmcia modems

[presotto]

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I'll add it to our version, thanks.

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From: miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: RE: [9fans] pcmcia modems
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:56:40 BST
Message-ID: <E13FcLO-0007sM-0B@finch-post-11.mail.demon.net>

> If you're using ppp, don't use telco.

In fact if you want to use ppp with telco, it only takes a small change --
I happen to have done this a couple of days ago:

term% diff /sys/src/cmd/ip/ppp/ppp.c ppp.c
2277,2281c2277,2289
< 			fprint(2, "ppp: couldn't open %s\n", dev);
< 			exits(dev);
< 		}
< 		snprint(buf, sizeof buf, "%sctl", dev);
< 		cfd = open(buf, ORDWR);
---
> 			if(strchr(dev, '!')){
> 				if((mediafd = dial(dev, 0, 0, &cfd)) == -1){
> 					fprint(2, "ppp: couldn't dial %s: %r\n", dev);
> 					exits(dev);
> 				}
> 			} else {
> 				fprint(2, "ppp: couldn't open %s\n", dev);
> 				exits(dev);
> 			}
> 		} else {
> 			snprint(buf, sizeof buf, "%sctl", dev);
> 			cfd = open(buf, ORDWR);
> 		}


With this you can do 'ip/ppp -ufp telco!555-1234' or if your ndb has
a line like 'sys=demon telco=555-1234 telco=555-1234 telco=555-9999'
then you can do 'ip/ppp -ufp telco!demon' and dial() will try phone
numbers in order until one works.  (Note the repeated number to try
that one twice.)

-- Richard Miller

RE: [9fans] pcmcia modems

[miller]

> If you're using ppp, don't use telco.

In fact if you want to use ppp with telco, it only takes a small change --
I happen to have done this a couple of days ago:

term% diff /sys/src/cmd/ip/ppp/ppp.c ppp.c
2277,2281c2277,2289
< 			fprint(2, "ppp: couldn't open %s\n", dev);
< 			exits(dev);
< 		}
< 		snprint(buf, sizeof buf, "%sctl", dev);
< 		cfd = open(buf, ORDWR);
---
> 			if(strchr(dev, '!')){
> 				if((mediafd = dial(dev, 0, 0, &cfd)) == -1){
> 					fprint(2, "ppp: couldn't dial %s: %r\n", dev);
> 					exits(dev);
> 				}
> 			} else {
> 				fprint(2, "ppp: couldn't open %s\n", dev);
> 				exits(dev);
> 			}
> 		} else {
> 			snprint(buf, sizeof buf, "%sctl", dev);
> 			cfd = open(buf, ORDWR);
> 		}


With this you can do 'ip/ppp -ufp telco!555-1234' or if your ndb has
a line like 'sys=demon telco=555-1234 telco=555-1234 telco=555-9999'
then you can do 'ip/ppp -ufp telco!demon' and dial() will try phone
numbers in order until one works.  (Note the repeated number to try
that one twice.)

-- Richard Miller

RE: [9fans] pcmcia modems

[Peter LeBlond]

I picked up the modem and was wondering if you could tell me what I need to
do to set it up. Telco(4) explains how to dial out with a serial modem on
/dev/eia1. How do I configure the pcmcia modem and what should it be called
in /dev? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

pdl@borf.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-9fans@cse.psu.edu [mailto:owner-9fans@cse.psu.edu]On Behalf
Of presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 7:03 PM
To: sah@borf.com; 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pcmcia modems


I'm using the xircom creditcard modem 56, in fact i'm connected via ppp

Re: [9fans] pcmcia modems

[presotto]

I'm using the xircom creditcard modem 56, in fact i'm connected via ppp

[9fans] pcmcia modems

[sah]

Greetings,

I have an ibm 600e I'd like to get a modem for.  Can anyone recommend a
pcmcia modem that they have working?

Sam

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