From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 09:01:37 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 AE78337B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:01:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp4.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp4.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC1F43F75 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:01:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from smtp4.adl2.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h6HG1XG8026632 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:31:34 +0930 (CST) Received: (from mailnull@localhost)h6HG1XFT026628 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:31:33 +0930 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: smtp4.adl2.internode.on.net: mailnull set sender to using -f Received: from beta.home (ppp398.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.245.141]) h6HG0jG8026295; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:31:33 +0930 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Malcolm Kay Organization: At home To: "none" , Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:30:45 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <002e01c34c6d$09908bc0$010a0a0a@desktop> In-Reply-To: <002e01c34c6d$09908bc0$010a0a0a@desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200307180130.45462.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> X-Proc-As: freebsd-questions X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.33 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) 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 16:01:38 -0000 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 ther= e is > no login prompt, i was able to send data directly to the port and see i= t on > the other computer with command: echo "Hello" > /dec/cuaa0, Also i rea= d > that if getty completes the open port process then it changes from ?? i= n > the PS screen to something it does not, so i am assuming that getty doe= sn't > realize that the connection has been established, any ideas? > Apart from setting your modem to answer incoming calls have you enabled t= he port for login in /etc/ttys. If you are on the first serial port you must change the ttyd0 line from '= off'=20 to 'on' and possibly choose a different getty argument. A predefined set = of=20 modem interface parameters is available in /etc/gettytab. Malcolm =20