Solaris™ 8 Advanced System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition

Enabling Solaris for a Bidirectional Modem

The following list contains important notes.

• All single quotes in these directions are back quotes, not forward quotes, except where specifically noted.

• Be sure to execute these commands as root, from a Bourne shell (sh), not ksh, tcsh, or csh. (If you use a Bourne shell script, that's good.)

• If, after following these instructions, you get modem failures, or if the add_modem script gives an error message about ttyadm: -V: invalid parameter, then make sure that root's default shell is /sbin/sh and not csh.

• You want to have a maximum of one port monitor running on a given port. If you accidentally have two or more running on the port, your machine will probably panic.

• There is much disagreement over whether ...