[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My modem picks up every 10 secs and dials 0. I think it has something > to do with mgetty. Can anyone help? > -Joe
I'll help you, but ONLY if you lower ISDN rates for the north-east! Seriously though, did you perchance install (and partially configure?!) diald? diald is a demand dialer which does just this job (dial a modem and startup ppp/slip when you want to use the net). I wouldn't think that mgetty would be causing it. The only scenario I could see involving mgetty would be if your modem was configured to auto-dial a number when it sees DTR (which you *can* configure certain modems to do) and then mgetty trying to send a config string to the modem, which would fail because the modem was not in command mode, and then mgetty sleeping for ten seconds, exiting, and then trying again. To eliminate this possibility, edit /etc/inittab and comment out (prepend line with '#') any line which has mgetty in it (ok, there should only be one for your serial line which has the modem on it, but I like to make no-fail instructions). Then do 'kill -HUP 1' which will cause the init process to reread /etc/inittab and *not run* mgetty. You can then type a 'ps -ax' to satisfy yourself that mgetty is not running and then wait and see. If this does not fix your problem you can reverse this by simply uncommenting those lines in /etc/inittab and again running 'kill -HUP 1'. If mgetty *is* the problem you may want to configure your modem not to dial and the write those settings to nvram (usually 'at&w') or change the mgetty config string. Either way, if you don't figure it out from this you can come back here and we'll take another look. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
