A question about minicom and mgetty1.0

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Hi,

minxu wrote:
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> It is fine to switch to PPP. But when I want to switch back to minicom .
> I have to kill pppd and run minicom -o to bring the minicom up without
> initializing the modem. It works well before. But in the mgetty,
> whenever I kill the pppd and run minicom -o , the modem connection died
> immediately. 

This will happen if the serial port is set to "HUPLC" and them modem is
set to "AT&D2" or "&D3" - meaning "when the last program is finished, drop
the DTR line, and this will make the modem hang up".

So: don't do this that way, or set the modem to AT&D0 (ignore DTR) [not
recommended]. 

Why would anyone switch back from pppd to minicom anyway??? Why would
anyone use minicom and pppd in combination anyway? Sound like a very
complicated way to simulate running "chat".

gert
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