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20. trouble: ttyI* devices (´Modem emulation´)

20.1 trouble: When I dial with "ATD....." I always get a "NO CARRIER".

Before dialing, you have to enter "AT&E123456" (if 123456 is your own MSN; with 1TR6 give the one-digit EAZ).

20.2 trouble: My modem emulation/pppd does not recognize an incoming call.

Probably you did not tell the modem emulation with "AT&E" which MSN to use. For example, use "AT&E123456" if your MSN is 123456.

20.3 trouble: Why can't I dial my telephone or fax with the modem emulation?

ISDN differentiates different services. All outgoing calls with the modem emulation use the service "Digital Data", which is incompatible with telephone or fax, so the call never gets through.

20.4 trouble: I can't get a connection to my ISDN mailbox/BBS.

There are several possible protocol parameters. There is HDLC, there is X.75 and there are several possible block sizes with X.75. You can tell the modem emulation about the block size with "AT&B". Mostly used is a block size of 2048 byte: "AT&B2048".

20.5 trouble: My modem emulation hangs. How can I force my card to hang up?

If there is really no process using your modem emulation any more, try:


cu -l /dev/ttyI0 dir
+++
ath0
~.

Before and after "+++" you have to wait for a second, otherwise the modem emulation won't recognize it as the escape sequence (like a normal modem). Watch out for processes that (with "ps -ax") have something like "I0" or "I1" in the second column, they have an ISDN terminal as their controlling terminal. You may have to kill them with kill.

20.6 trouble: During a tty connection, I get a message from the kernel "teles_writebuf: channel not open". Then no more input is acceptedfor this connection.

Can happen when the partner cannot handle the large frames from i4l and simply closes the B channel during the transfer. Try making the frames smaller with AT&B512.

20.7 trouble: When I use UUCP with X.75, I always get transfer errors!

Andreas Gutzwiller andy@hippo.proxyon.imp.com wrote on 5 Dec 1996:

I had to use the following settings, otherwise I only had errors. # Prot protocol-parameter g packet-size 512 protocol-parameter g short-packets y protocol-parameter g window 7 protocol-parameter g remote-window 7 protocol-parameter v packet-size 512 Now with large packets I can get ca 7300 cps.
Holger Burbach holly@cthulhu.pfalz.de on 5 Feb 1997 had another solution:
I have several XP users who poll without any problems. I did the following: First I set the send packet size for ttyI? to 1024 ("AT&B1024") and then set the packet size for the g protocol in UUCP: protocol-parameter g packet-size 2048 protocol-parameter g remote-packet-size 0 As I said, it works fine..


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