caller id in vgetty

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>From: Jason <jtwhite@altavista.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 1:22 AM
>Subject: caller id in vgetty
>

> I'm in the US (unlike Vaggos) with a USR 33.6 voice modem and I can't
> seem to get vgetty to pull in the caller-id information.  I've used X
> apps like "xcallerid" and "gnuvoice", and they all pull down the
> caller-id information perfectly.  But as I watch the vgetty log, it
> always says:
>
> ##### message keep, length=00:00:34, name='', caller=none, dev=ttyS3,
> pid=12345
>
> My modem dosen't have the AT#CID=1 set by default, so I've added this (
> I think) to the mgetty.config file using "init-chat".
>
>  # mgetty.config (complete file)
> debug 4
> speed 38400
> port ttyS3
> init-chat "" AT#CID=1 OK

I have a USR 33.6 and use:

post-init-chat "" AT#CID=1 OK

in mgetty.config to force the caller id settings to be reset once everything
else is done ... seems to work fine.

Rob