From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 22 19:26:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA24808 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 May 1997 19:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from geocities.com (mail3.geocities.com [204.7.246.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA24802 for ; Thu, 22 May 1997 19:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [206.173.71.51] (cnc034051.concentric.net [206.173.71.51]) by geocities.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA18108; Thu, 22 May 1997 19:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705230217.TAA18108@geocities.com> Subject: Re: Modem Problem?!? Date: Thu, 22 May 97 22:26:17 -0400 x-sender: pgardella@mail.geocities.com x-mailer: Claris Emailer 1.1 From: Patrick Gardella To: cc: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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. Yes, I had installed the mgetty+sendfax, but I removed it and then removed that line from /etc/ttys. Thanks for the note. Patrick