From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 21:05:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA07270 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA07259 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:05:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.161]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA04301 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA02509; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:03:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:03:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: shegonee@ix.netcom.com cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: auto-answer In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970817152811.007ab100@popd.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 17 Aug 1997 shegonee@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Hi, > Can someone tell me a niffty way to set my modem to autoanswer > in rc.local? I know the AT command is ATS0=1, but tip is interactive > ( can't even use "here" files ) and chat only seesm to work in the ppp > options file. > At this point, I don't want tp start ppp at boot up so I need a way > to set it directly. Set your modem to auto-answer with ATS0=1 then write it to the modem's NVRAM with AT&W. This way, every time the modem is powered up the auto-answer mode is set. If you are setting up dialup access, you may be interested in mgetty, which is much more intelligent about modems than the standard getty. Mgetty is in the ports tree. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo