Re: Modem on Apple Lombard
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999, Sergio Brandano <sb@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
> If you have an Apple PowerBook G3 Lombard, could you please tell me
> what is the device for the modem and what is a step by step procedure
> for having minicom working?
The modem is on /dev/ttyS0
minicom needs to be patched to fix a timeout problem when opening the
serial port:
--- minicom-1.82.orig/src/main.c Thu Aug 27 00:54:16 1998
+++ minicom-1.82/src/main.c Thu Oct 14 16:20:00 1999
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
if (setjmp(albuf) == 0) {
portfd = -1;
signal(SIGALRM, get_alrm);
- alarm(2);
+ alarm(4);
#if defined(O_NDELAY) && defined(F_SETFL)
portfd = open(dial_tty, O_RDWR|O_NDELAY);
if (portfd >= 0){
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