[LI] Problem with mgetty.

["Pankaj Mathur" <matsulsan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi folks,
Sorry for pasting a somewhat long output. I follwed the article of PC Quest 
Mar 99 " Configure your Linux server for access through a modem"by Vivek 
Kumar and Atul Chitnis and I am facing the follwing problems:
A) At home after doing 'init q' to force the system to reread the 
'/etc/inittab file so that it can start mgetty with the options given there. 
But it locks the modem and my ppp interface - there should be some way of 
manually stopping  mgetty to free the device for dialing out to ISP. I want 
to know what option to use with mgetty to disable it temporarily  - man & 
info pages were not of much help.

B) I tried these settings(given in that PC Quest article) with two computers 
and the results were like this- I was prompted for (I used the option of pop 
up a window after dialling in a Win 95 machine) username and password. After 
entering the info I got the shell propmt for user name "jojo" which I was 
using and I could browse through the directories of my linux machine but 
after pressing "continue" to finish the procedure of dialling in I got the 
message saying that "you've been disconnected form the remote computer". 
Below is an extract of my /var/log/mgetty.log.ttyS0 for one such transaction 
(just in case someone can figure out something from it).But the log extracts 
looks OK to me so I don't know what else to post to clearly define my 
problem. Waiting for some response from the list.
Extracts of my log file:
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01/10 18:03:41 yS1  mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.14-Apr02
01/10 18:03:41 yS1  check for lockfiles
01/10 18:03:41 yS1  locking the line
01/10 18:03:42 yS1  lowering DTR to reset Modem
01/10 18:03:42 yS1  send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d]
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  waiting for ``OK'' ** found **
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  send: ATS0=0Q0&D3&C1[0d]
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  waiting for ``OK'' ** found **
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  mdm_send: 'ATI'
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  Generic Rockwell modem (56000)
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  mdm_send: 'ATI3'
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  mdm_send: 'ATI4'
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  additional info: ''
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  modem quirks: 0004
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=2' -> OK
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FCLASS=0' -> OK
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FAA=1;+FCR=1' -> OK
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FBOR=0' -> OK
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FLID="49 89 xxxxxxxx"' -> OK
01/10 18:03:43 yS1  mdm_send: 'AT+FDCC=1,5,0,2,0,0,0,0' -> OK
01/10 18:03:44 yS1  waiting...
01/10 18:04:26 yS1  waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
01/10 18:04:26 yS1  send: ATA[0d]
01/10 18:04:26 yS1  waiting for ``CONNECT'' ** found **
01/10 18:04:47 yS1  send:
01/10 18:04:47 yS1  waiting for ``_'' ** found **
01/10 18:04:51 ##### data dev=ttyS1, pid=650, caller='none', conn='57600', 
name='', cmd='/bin/login', user='jojo'

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