From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 14:17:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E93937B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nycsmtp5out-eri0.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp5out-eri0.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F4A743FD7 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from public234@nj.rr.com) Received: from desktop (24-193-114-28.nj.rr.com [24.193.114.28]) 1.0) with SMTP id h6HLH8WE008788; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:17:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <002801c34ca9$c1a69650$010a0a0a@desktop> From: "none" To: "Malcolm Kay" , References: <002e01c34c6d$09908bc0$010a0a0a@desktop> <200307180130.45462.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:24:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Subject: Re: Dialin problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:17:15 -0000 I did that, sorry for not mentioning it, infact when i enabled the port is when the modem started to autoanswer otherwise it does not autoanswer at all ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Kay" To: "none" ; Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:00 PM Subject: Re: Dialin problem On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:39, none wrote: > Hi, if anyone has done dial-in service before > i am having is that my modem does pick up the phone when i dial in, and the > two modems establish a connection, but the OS does not do anything there is > no login prompt, i was able to send data directly to the port and see it on > the other computer with command: echo "Hello" > /dec/cuaa0, Also i read > that if getty completes the open port process then it changes from ?? in > the PS screen to something it does not, so i am assuming that getty doesn't > realize that the connection has been established, any ideas? > Apart from setting your modem to answer incoming calls have you enabled the port for login in /etc/ttys. If you are on the first serial port you must change the ttyd0 line from 'off' to 'on' and possibly choose a different getty argument. A predefined set of modem interface parameters is available in /etc/gettytab. Malcolm