Modem doesn't pick up

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Hi,

On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 01:40:02PM +0200, Sjoerd Venema wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to get mgetty to work. It seems that the program checks
> the modem but the modem doesn't pick up the modem. In the logfile I get
> the following message:
> 
> > 06/16 12:38:33 yS1  mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.19-Nov24
> > 06/16 12:38:33 yS1  check for lockfiles
> > 06/16 12:38:33 yS1  locking the line
> > 06/16 12:38:34 yS1  WARNING: DSR is off - modem turned off or bad cable?
> > 06/16 12:38:34 yS1  lowering DTR to reset Modem
> > 06/16 12:38:34 yS1  send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d]
> > 06/16 12:38:35 yS1  waiting for ``OK''
> > 06/16 12:38:55 yS1  timeout in chat script, waiting for `OK'
> > 06/16 12:38:55 yS1  init chat timed out, trying force-init-chat
> > 06/16 12:38:55 yS1  send: \d[10][03]\d\d\d+++\d\d\d[0d]\dATQ0V1H0[0d]
> > 06/16 12:38:59 yS1  waiting for ``OK''
> > 06/16 12:39:19 yS1  timeout in chat script, waiting for `OK'
> > 06/16 12:39:19 yS1  init chat failed, exiting...: Interrupted system call
> > 06/16 12:39:19 ##### failed in mg_init_data, dev=ttyS1, pid=177

Looks like "no modem connected", or "broken serial cable", or "broken
serial port".

You sure you have connected the modem to ttyS1 (which is COM2 !! under
DOS)?

gert
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