Subject: Re: Dial In
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
From: Thomas Seeger <thomas@swn.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 03/02/1998 22:09:05
Hi Ignatios!

Am 02-M=E4r-98 schrieb Ignatios Souvatzis:

>> Yep. My question was: How have I to send modem commands? E.g. S0=3D0 f=
or auto
>> answering and other config stuff. Have I to kick
>> out getty in /etc/ttys, replace it with chat, and chat fiddles with th=
e
>modem
>> and starts a getty? Which thing sends Hayes commands
>> to the modems for configuring them?
>Oh, I misunderstood earlier.

I guessed it. ;)

>Normally, you switch off getty (by setting the line to offline in /etc/t=
tys
>and kill -HUP 1), and use some terminal program to program the modem and=
 save
>the configuration.

That means switching off modem result codes? Otherwise they would surely
disturb getty. I often wondered at so called
"dumb modem" dip switches and their purpose... O.K., I got it!

>If you want to do per-session initialization, yes, you would have to get=
 and
>compile and run mgetty; getty doesn't provide for this. =


I'll take a look at it also. (but the first sounds a lot classicer)

Tnx for the help!
Thomas