Subject: Re: Dial in
To: Eric Damien Berna <eric@thiel.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/05/1997 13:09:24
> 	I have a Mac IIcx that is currently running NetBSD 1.2. It is
> 	connected to my office Ethernet. That network has a full time
> 	connection to the Internet. I have plenty of IP addresses. I
> 	have a USR Courier V.Everything modem and a dedicated phone
> 	line.
> 
> 	My goal is to get this hardware setup so that I can dial in
> 	with my Newton MessagePad. I can get the MessagePad to work
> 	fine dialing in to another ISP so that computer is known to
> 	work.
> 
> 	What I don't know how to do is get the Mac IIcx to answer the
> 	phone under NetBSD. I've looked at mgetty, but the standard
> 	ditribution mentions a seporate BSD port. All I can find on
> 	that is a FreeBSD port. (By the way, is there any support for
> 	the FreeBSD port system in NetBSD?)

It went in within the last month. You can SUP it, but you do need to
be running 1.3.

I just checked, and I couldn't find mgetty in it. Ask on current-users.
Someone's got to have mgetty working!

Good luck!

Take care,

Bill