RE: Connect via ASCII controller and modem

The little device attached to the modems is a null modem adapter.  IBM
will gladly sell you a $125 "special cable", but a plain old male to
male, 25 pin serial cable and a $7 null modem adapter from Radio Shack
accomplishes the same thing.

Basically the AWSC looks to the system like a twinax controller.  As far
as I remember the box does not autocreate these devices, so you will
need to create device descriptions attached to the controller.  You say
the controller is in a VRYON PENDING status, are there any devices
attached to the controller?  What are their status?

As a test you might want to disconnect the modems and hook a PC directly
to the AWSC with a serial cable (do not use the null modem adapter) and
then fire up Crosstalk, point it to your serial comm port (rather than
the modem) and see if you can get a signon screen.  The max speed for
the AWSC ports is 19200.  Also, the VT100 terminal emulation does work
OK, as long as you remember the map.  If not, once you are connected to
the AWSC, you can use the command DSPVT100MAP (I think that is the
command), and it will show you all the command sequences.  I don't
remember if cross talk supports it, but most of the old dial up comm
programs allowed you to "map" keyboard command sequences so you could
have a reasonable keyboard function (ie press F1 and the program sent
ESC + 1)

Good luck.
cjg

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Jim Newman
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 2:48 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Connect via ASCII controller and modem


I have an AS400 F35 running V2R2 (I know, it's ancient, but don't laugh
- it was almost free).  When I got the machine it had an ASCII
workstation controller attached and 4 Hayes 9600 modems connected.  The
modems have a small device connected to the cable running to the ASCII
workstation controller that looks like a gender switcher.  I'm
attempting to dial in using Crosstalk 2.0.1 with a session configured as
a VT100.

When dialing in, the modems are connecting (I can tell this by the
lights on the modem attached to the ASCII controller and by the sounds
of the modem in the pc) but I don't get a sign on screen.  I seem to
remember from when I did this on another system about 10 years ago that
once the connection is made you have to hit [enter] a few times but when
I do this, the connection is dropped.  The controller these modems are
attached to is varied on and all the devices say "VARY ON PENDING".

Any thoughts someone would like to offer on getting this to work would
be greatly appreciated.



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