Redhat Linux 8.0 and getting modem to answer

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Moss, Jon wrote:
> Thank you very much!  I was trying to be patient.  :)
> 
> I installed mgetty yesterday at work and found a couple of how-to's via 
> Google.  Late in the day yesterday I modified my inittab and rebooted.  
> However, I was getting errors (and repeated errors from the respawning) 
> so I edited inittab to comment out mgetty and rebooted again.  I didn't 
> have time to review the errors further but will do so later this morning.
> 
> I've read through some of the man pages on mgetty and pppd and several 
> how-to's, but will do some more reading.
> 
> What version of mgetty are you using?  Do you know which one works best 
> or better with Redhat 8.0?
> 
> Thanks for the offer of assistance.  I'll try to muddle through this 
> without bothering too much!

For reference:

My serial-port console entry in inittab for RH7.2:

# Serial port console
S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyS0 38400 vt102

I'm not sure what (if anything) would have to change for modem access, 
but the above works fine for a plain old serial port.

Also, don't reboot after changing inittab, just "telinit q".  See "man 
telinit" for details, as usual.

-- 
Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net