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Wayne Ingram <wingram@opennet.net.au> wrote:

>I am having trouble setting up my modem (Banksia MyFastModem 28.8 VFC)
>to allow others to dial in. I have the following line in my inittab:

>d2:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty -mt60 38400,19200,9600,2400,1200 ttyS1 vt100

>What happens is that when I boot and do a ps, the agetty process is
>there waiting for a logon, but after  a few seconds, the process
>disappears. The modem will pick up incoming calls (autoanswer) but the
>computer will not respond.

>I had the same trouble with a 7 wire null modem to another pc, but not
>with a 3 wire??? 

>Is agetty getting some crap or something from one of the control lines,
>and jumping past the login prompt and then waiting for a password, and
>hence agetty process disapears??

>Any help is greatly appreciated.


>Wayne

I had problems using agetty for dial up. Try using uugetty instead.