Re: Modem Port
Re: Modem Port
- Subject: Re: Modem Port
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:19:39 +0000
Hi,
Maybe for Morgan it was Mac OS 9 only, but what is the
point of writing software for the Mac OS 9 only these
days?
Adam
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This is specifically a MacOS 9 discussion. This does not apply to X
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or even classic . I though you were looking for specific info on how
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to "uniquely" identify the Internal modem port.
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Roger
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At 4:28 PM +0000 3/14/02, email@hidden wrote:
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>Hi,
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>I thought leapIn and leapOut wouldn't even be the names
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>in Mac OS X? I think counting on leapIn/leapOut is not
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>very robust.
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>In my software, SoftTTY (TTY for the Mac), I want to
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>ignore any Infrared ports when auto-configuring. What I
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>do is filter serial ports with "irda" or "infrared" in
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>the name (not the "." driver name or bsd path). This is
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>good at eliminating most infrared ports and doesn't
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>exclude any non-infrared ports.
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>Adam
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>> .LeapIn and .LeapOut would get you the internal modem on all
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>> machines which Apple says is capable of running MacOS X (this entry
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>> is only present if the modem is available) , it won't work for
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>> earlier machines such as the first powerbook g3, or the beige g3
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>> tower with 2 serial ports.
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>> In any event you should always open .aIn and .aOut (just drop in
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>> to Macsbug and type drvr to get the correct case...) since
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>> .LeapIn/.LeapOut is patched into the driver open call and will work
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>> properly on a machine where .aIn really points to the modem.
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>> Roger
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>> At 3:16 PM +0000 3/14/02, Quinn wrote:
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>> >At 18:28 -0800 13/3/02, Morgan Redman wrote:
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>> >>I remember a while back, I got help with how to identify which serial port
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>> >>was actually an IrDA port. ( by identifying the serial port with
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>> >>input/output drivers named ".IrIn" / ".IrOut"
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>> >>
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>> >>Now I need to know how to identify which serial port is the
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>>Internal Modem.
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>> >>
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>> >>the input / output driver name for the Internal Modem on my machine is
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>> >>".LeapIn" / ".LeapOut"
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>> >>is this constant on all macs?
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>> >
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>> >Testing for these driver names is about as reliable as testing for
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>> >".IrIn"/".IrOut". We've never documented that this technique will
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>> >work, but it's the best solution I know of.
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>> >
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>> >S+E
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>> >--
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>> >Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
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