Re: Dial In

[thomas%swn.de@localhost (Thomas Seeger)]

Hi Ignatios!

Am 02-Mär-98 schrieb Ignatios Souvatzis:

>> Yep. My question was: How have I to send modem commands? E.g. S0=0 for auto
>> answering and other config stuff. Have I to kick
>> out getty in /etc/ttys, replace it with chat, and chat fiddles with the
>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/ttys
>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