vgetty on US Robotics modems

Marc Eberhard (marc@poseidon.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de)
Thu, 15 May 1997 14:20:03 +0200 (MET DST)


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Hi!

John Heidemann wrote:
> I'm trying to bring up vgetty and vm on my US Robotics modem
> and having problems. Before getting deep into hacking the code I

Please check

http://spunky.roadkill.com/vgetty/vgetty.html

first. It has some tricks for setting up USR modems. Maybe this solves your
problems.

> (I have mgetty-1.1.0 with a vgetty with the last date in the changelog
> of Tue Dec 10 20:08:57 1996.)

That is so old, that I'm not going to accept any patch against that release.
Please upgrade to the latest mgetty beta on ftp.leo.org.

> Basically, if I do
>  vm record -w /tmp/ogm
> it hangs.
> 
> Using strace, only the following data goes to the modem:

Great... what about the vm logfile? That would be much more interesting.

> Should I get a newer version? Should I contact the person who did the
> US_Robotics module? Or should I just start hacking?

Get the latest version first, then read the WWW page above and then ask
again with a complete logfile, that shows the problem (highest debug level)

Bye,
Marc

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