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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Amos Shapira wrote:

> |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

and does that enable you to make outgoing calls too? through what device?

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