From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 22 15:23:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA12426 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 May 1997 15:23:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FNAL.FNAL.Gov (SYSTEM@fnal.fnal.gov [131.225.110.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA12415 for ; Thu, 22 May 1997 15:23:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aduxb.fnal.gov ("port 33151"@aduxb.fnal.gov) by FNAL.FNAL.GOV (PMDF V5.0-5 #3998) id <01IJ6FBMXTMG00096J@FNAL.FNAL.GOV>; Thu, 22 May 1997 17:23:45 -0600 Received: from localhost by aduxb.fnal.gov (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01829; Thu, 22 May 1997 17:23:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:23:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Richard Neswold Subject: Re: Modem Problem?!? In-reply-to: <199705222150.OAA21139@geocities.com> To: Patrick Gardella Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: neswold@FNAL.GOV Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 May 1997, Patrick Gardella wrote: > I am about ready to pull my hair out! I am trying to dial out on my > FreeBSD 2.2.1 system. But for some reason, my communications with my > modem are messed up. The computer can talk to the modem just fine. Did you install the mgetty+sendfax port? When I installed this port, an entry was added to my '/etc/ttys' file which attached 'mgetty' to '/dev/cuaa1'. To fix it, I removed the last line of '/etc/ttys' and had 'init' reload the file. Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Neswold, Accelerator Div./Controls Dept | neswold@fnal.gov Fermilab, PO Box 500, MS 347, Batavia, IL 60510 | voice (630) 840-3454 'finger neswold@aduxb.fnal.gov' for PGP key | fax (630) 840-3093