help with modem needed

[Ken Chapin]

In article <11004 at quacky.mips.COM> menna at mips.COM (Randy Menna) writes:
>I need some help connecting a modem to a compac 386 running microport
>3.0e.  I am using the serial port that in the dos world is COM1, ttyM00.
>I have uugetty respawning on the line, and I have set the modem to auto
>answer mode (it is a hayes compatible).  The problem I am having is that
>whenever I dial in to the system the modem answers the phone but doesn't
>talk at all.  So my conections time out.  I really need to be able to
>call in to this system, any help would be greatly appreciated.

My advice is to forget uugetty and run an /etc/getty on the ttyM00 device

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