Re: The mgetty ...

[Carsten Hoeger <choeger@suse.de>]

On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Alex Ongena wrote:

> I saw several topics on the list regarding the use of mgetty as
> faxgetty DATA frontend, but as far as I could trace, nobody said
> it works, everybody thinks it should work. I think there is no getty
> '-h' alternative in mgetty and this causes all the trouble.
> 
> I too tried to get faxgetty start mgetty when a DATA call comes in,
> but up until now, no luck.
> 
> Is there somebody with a working combination of faxgetty spawning mgetty ?
> What are the GettyArgs ?
> 
> I use Hylafax 4.0pl1 and mgetty 1.1.0 (linux 2.0.27)
> 
> I want to use mgetty because it automatically detects PPP connections and
> can start my pppd without going through the login process (AutoPPP).
> 
> (BTW: running the same mgetty on a separte port works fine, I only get these
>  type of errors when FaxGetty is starting mgetty)
> 
> Mar  8 12:00:09 asterix FaxGetty[2265]: ANSWER: DATA CONNECTION
> Mar  8 12:00:09 asterix FaxGetty[2265]: GETTY: START "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -r modemtor1", pid 2307
> Mar  8 12:00:10 asterix mgetty[2307]: TIOCMBIS failed: I/O error
> Mar  8 12:00:10 asterix mgetty[2307]: cannot turn off soft carrier: I/O error
> Mar  8 12:00:10 asterix mgetty[2307]: tcgetattr failed: I/O error
> Mar  8 12:00:10 asterix mgetty[2307]: cannot get TIO: I/O error

You first have to tell mgetty not to initialize Modem, etc...

My mgetty.config looks as follows:

port modem
direct y
toggle-dtr n

My GettyArgs:

-r -b %l

and that should work, but... it doesn`t :-(

I`m working on a solution, but I have little time... :-(


mfG,
	Carsten Hoeger
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