mgetty problems

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I am using the following driver/software on a RedHat 5.0 box:

Cyclom-Y/PCI	2.1.1.3a
mgetty		mgetty-1.1.9-3
pppd 		ppp-2.3.3-2

Problem #1 -

The MultiTech (MT2834ZDb 33.6K) modems, that I use for
dialins, periodically hang and need to be turned "off 
and on" to start working again.

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Problem #2 -

mgetty periodically does not initialize correctly -

The following is from ps ax | grep mgetty:

15731  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -D -x 5 -s 57600 -n 2
/dev/ttyC10
18852  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -D -x 5 -s 57600 -n 2 /dev/ttyC8
18909  ?  S    0:00 (mgetty)
24351  ?  S    0:00 /usr/local/sbin/mgetty -D -x 5 -s 57600 -n 2
/dev/ttyC11   

The process on pid 18909 is hung!  If I kill it, 
the mgetty will re-initialize correctly.  Is this inittab 
or mgetty?

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Problem #3

Most importantly -

In an older version of mgetty, 1.1.0, it used to complain
verbosely, to the log files, about a modem that was 
turned off, removed from the cable, or hung.  The old
mgetty would check the modem every 5 minutes
and log the error.  This mgetty seems to wait 6 days 
before logging an error.  The old version had some 
reference to mg_init_data that I could grep for to see 
if there was a problem like the ones I am having now.
I can't seem to get this out of this one.  It used to do 
it with a debug level of 2.  As you can see I have the 
debug level set to 5.  Changing this to any other does 
not give the desired effect, even 9. 


greg