At 7:07 AM -0600 11/5/97, Eric Damien Berna wrote:
>>> 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?)
>>>
>>> So what can I use for dial up support?
>>
>>A dial-up shell is REAL easy.....dial-up PPP is another story, I haven't
>>tried it.  All I can say is read lots of man pages and hope :)
>>
>>                Kevin Ogden
>
>Hi,
>
>Thanks for the reply.
>
>From reading a few articles on how to set up dial-up PPP, the first step is
>always setting up a dial up shell. But that is where I'm getting stuck. Can
>you help?
>

setting up a dialup shell involves playing with the getty. look at
/etc/ttys, and change the entries for tty00 (modem port) and tty01(printer
port).

to set up a pppdaemon (which i never did because i never needed to) you'd
first shut off the getty in /etc/ttys (if you turned it on to make a shell
login) and reboot (you don't even need to reboot, but you might be safer
doing so).  among all the other options in the ppp settings files, you'd
want to throw in "passive", so that pppd will not complain about not making
a connection when you run it, but will wait until it is acted upon.  You'd
also have to set the modem to auto answer (some modems, like my USR
sportster 28.8, have a hardware dip-switch for this).

bill studenmund might be able to help you with this stuff, he's a ppp expert =)

  - a

 Armen Babikyan - armenb@moof.ai.mit.edu - http://electron.xeo.net
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