[ILUG] Dialling in using mgetty

[McAuley, Tim]

I don't know if this might help but this is how I have mgetty set up. It
might help you.

Redhat 7.1 - fresh install

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mgetty.conf
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# External 56K modem
port ttyS0
speed 115200
init-chat "" ATZ OK ATM0Q0V1E1S0=0&C1&D2S11=55+FCLASS=0 OK
answer-chat "" ATA CONNECT \c \r

(the init string was taken from using wvdial, when it creating it's own conf
file)

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login.conf
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* -         -       /etc/ppp/ppplogin

(I found the autoppp didn't work all the time. This is because I was using a
peculiar modem to dialin ... don't ask, so I just made mgetty run this
little script, rather than worrying if it detected ppp or not... in fact
recently it has been, but it still runs fine anyway)

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ppplogin (made executable)
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#!/bin/sh
#mesg n
#stty -echo
/usr/sbin/pppd -detach noauth proxyarp asyncmap 0 crtscts modem debug \
kdebug 7 lock 192.168.1.1:192.168.1.24 ms-dns 192.168.1.1 mtu 576 novj

(you probably don't want to use exactly these settings, i.e noauth or novj,
but as before, I had to do some messing around for the particular modem
dialing into the box)

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/etc/inittab
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# Initialise the terminal which handles incoming calls
# via the modem
S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x 9 -D ttyS0


That's it. Hope it helps. Also, if you get into trouble, it's best to reset
mgetty i.e.
<comment out mgetty line from inittab>
init q (to reread that file)
<comment line back in>
init q


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
> horkanj at eircom.net
> Sent: 15 January 2002 14:39
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG] Dialling in using mgetty
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to dialin to one of my linux machines running 
> RH 6.2 using mgetty 1.1.26. Totally erratic problems. I am 
> using a V.90 modem. The first time i tried to dialin pppd 
> was kicked off using autoppp, but due to a syntax error in 
> options file pppd failed. Ever since that I am getting the 
> following error in the logs.
> 
> 
> 01/15 14:49:36 yS1  waiting for ``CONNECT''
> 01/15 14:49:36 yS1   got: ATA[0d]
> 01/15 14:49:36 yS1    CND: OKATA[0d][0a]NO CARRIER
> 01/15 14:50:39 yS1  found action string: ``NO CARRIER''
> 01/15 14:50:39 ##### failed A_FAIL dev=ttyS1, pid=3093, 
> caller='none', conn='', name=''
> 
> 
> Any ideas what may be causing this problem? Any help greatly 
> appreciated.
> 
> Regards 
> John 
> 
> 
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