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setting up dialup connection



Hi,

Yesterday I managed to login to my Linux PC my elderly Atari ST computer
via a null-modem cable. Next, I tried to set up a modem link, but with
less success. What I did, basically, was to uncomment the relevant agetty
lines in my Slackware inittab file. What happens is that on reboot,
instead of ps showing me an agetty process waiting for a dial-up (similar
to the unused virtual terminals and the null-modem), I see a login
process, as if somebody had already dialed in. 

This suggests to me that I need to send an initialisation string to the
modem, telling it to wait for incoming calls (something like ATS0=1),
however, I can see nowhere in the initialisation process that would allow
me to do that. 

What have I missed?

DB

PS I tried reading the Serial-HOWTO, and it hardly mentions agetty at 
all.