Subj : Re: USR Modem...I kicked it's little butt!
To : All
From : Nelgin
Date : Wed Feb 15 2023 02:05 pm
On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:48:25 -0800
"Ted Long" <ted.long@VERT> wrote:
> Re: USR USB Modem woes
> By: Digital Man to Ted Long on Sun Jan 29 2023 01:01 pm
>
> Problem solved...finally!
>
>
> Got it licked, Rob!
>
> Went back over the few docs I could find online for the modem, and
> carefully re-read all the manpages for the getty programs. Then
> removed all the getty stuff, reinstalled minicom, and compared the
> /etc/.config files with everything i had printed out from the
> previous installation. Then I noticed some fine print in the online
> docs for the modem..."some UNIX systems capable of assigning virtual
> serial ports may identify the modem as /dev/ACMn, or /dev/ttyACMn",
> So I changed the serial port ID to /dev/ttyACM0. The modem shot "OK"
> right back. Got a friend with a modem to call the BBS phone line, and
> he was able to connect at 56k down and 28.8k up. Now comes the fun
> part...setting up Synchronet, loading some files, and getting SMTP,
> QWK, and DDNS working. Thanks for the help, all! I'll probably be
> bugging sysadmins with silly noob questions as work on the BBS
> continues.
I missed the bit where you said you were running getting. You don't
want to do that on a dial out tty. getty provides the login prompt and
interface to the authentication system. If you're trying to dial out it
could see that as a login attempt and start writing all over your
dialout.
Glad you got it working anyway.
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