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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Still more modem problems
Keywords: modem, 386, 3.0e, help
Message-ID: <8743@alice.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 14:48:45 GMT
References: <11126@quacky.mips.COM>
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
Lines: 22

In article <11126@quacky.mips.COM> menna@mips.COM (Randy Menna) writes:
>...
>Well, now the modem talks to the getty, just fine, well not quite just
>fine but all the time.  The getty keeps trying to spawn a login, the
>modems lights flash, it hangs up one the computer and does it again.

A normal getty only works fine with a modem if the modem is "silent".
You have to turn of all diagnostic messages and echo that the modem
normally sends to your serial port (and which is useful when you try
to dial our).

What you probably are getting now is that getty say "login:", the modem
replies with "COMMAND ERROR" or something like that, the getty then
spawns a login, which says "Password:", but "COMMAND ERROR" is not the
password for the (non-existing) user, and so login says "login:" again,
and this goes on for ever...

Paul.
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