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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12332 comp.os.linux.help:47665 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: mgetty dialin fails - cry for help Date: 14 Aug 1994 00:04:18 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32jjhi$e97@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <327j45$11n@virusdd.GUN.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie Keywords: mgetty linux dialin modem cyrus@virusdd.GUN.de (Ulrich Cyrus) writes: >I have (so far) successfully installed the mgetty/vgetty package >on my Linux (Slackware 1.2) machine. Answering Machine/ FAX works OK, >but I am not able to dial into my computer - I even get no connect. >Is this a *known* problem or do I need to do some extra hacks to >let it work? Why don't you set debug (eg /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -x 5 ... in /etc/inittab) and then tell us what the log file says. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland