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Re: PPPD error message?



Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> wrote:
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|on a Redhat 4.0 machine, running latest kernel and pppd, I installed
|mgetty to answer the line.
|FAQ says if I let mgetty answer cua?, and try to call out with ttyS? it
|will be fine, but it randomly fucks it up...
|anyway, it's one thing to get a "tty in use" from minicom but it is REALLY
|surprising to get "PPP not supported in this kernel" from PPPD :-)))
|
|dropped the mgetty from inittab, and wham, it's working...
|
|now...
|anyone knows how to install mgetty and leave the port open for dialout?

I don't remember where I read it, but I specifically remember a comment
which says that the instructions about using cua? for dialing and ttyS?
for dialout are wrong.  Here is my current mgetty entry in /etc/inittab:

S1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x 0 ttyS1

Oh, just found it (under /usr/doc/mgetty/ttyS-cua.txt, part of the Debian
mgetty+sendfax package):
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