Redhat / USRobotics / mgetty

• Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]

Hi,

mkaminer@yahoo.com wrote:
> I installed the mgetty rpm package.  After needing 4 other RPMs, finally
> mgetty says it needs "/sbin/ksh"  Not sure why, but it does.  I foun this file
> on the CDROM, added it to /sbin but mgetty is still not happy.  What is this
> file??

<joking>
ksh is the "korn shell", which is what RealMen(tm) use for entering
commands into their Unix/Linux system.  Only wimps use bash.
</joking>

No, I have no idea why the RedHat guys would make ksh necessary for
mgetty, maybe one of the contrib/ scripts doesn't work with bash, who
knows.  I don't think it is required, but who am I to know?

> So I forced the mgetty installation.  OK.  added this to my inttab:
> S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D -a -x9 ttyS0
> 
> mgetty seems to hummin right along.  Now a call comes in, the modem answers,
> and after about 3-4 seconds the modems do not negotiate, and it hangs up!
> Looking at the log file, the last line says... Waiting for CONNECT

Please *show* the last 20 lines of the log file up to and including the "###" 
line.  Don't just talk about it.

> I figures there may be a "special" setup for this modem.  I also was wondering
> if it had something to do with this "/sbin/ksh" file or the wrong glibc
> files.

No.  More likely it's a case of "my modem doesn't like your modem",
curable only with a big sledge hammer (but on the other hand, while 
the USR Sportster series are crap for fax, they are usually quite 
good for data...).

gert
-- 
USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
                                                           //www.muc.de/~gert/
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-35655025                        gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de