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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: help with modem needed
Keywords: modem, 386, help
Message-ID: <322@twwells.uucp>
Date: 11 Jan 89 16:29:05 GMT
References: <11004@quacky.mips.COM> <104@smosjc.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <104@smosjc.UUCP> john@smosjc.UUCP (John Conover) writes:
: In article <11004@quacky.mips.COM>, menna@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

Uugetty is likely to be the problem. According to John Plocher at
Microport, one should not use uugetty. Use getty instead.

Here is my inittab line:

M0:23:respawn:/etc/getty ttyM00 9600H # dial in line

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Bill
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