From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 12:24:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27817 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27787 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA02073; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:24:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:24:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Rick Knebel cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dial-in In-Reply-To: <199805101604.MAA00422@blue.knebel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 May 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I am somewhat new to freebsd and am trying to set up my home box so I can dial > in from work. > In the complete freebsd manual, it says to edit the /etc/ttys file which I did. > My modem is on cuaa1 so I have a line in this file that looks like this. > ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600" unknown on secure > > When I try to dial this line the phone just rings but my modem does not > answer. Did you see the part about enabling auto-answer on the modem? getty doesn't do that for you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message