help with modem needed

[John Conover]

In article <11004 at quacky.mips.COM>, menna at mips.COM (Randy Menna) writes:
> I need some help connecting a modem to a compac 386 running microport
> 3.0e.  I am using the serial port that in the dos world is COM1, ttyM00.
> I have uugetty respawning on the line, and I have set the modem to auto
> answer mode (it is a hayes compatible).  The problem I am having is that
> whenever I dial in to the system the modem answers the phone but doesn't
> talk at all.  So my conections time out.  I really need to be able to
> call in to this system, any help would be greatly appreciated.

I had the same trouble with Bell Technologies 3.0/3.1. Try cu'ing your
computer from an external terminal over the modem. In my case, no
login: prompt was issued, and of course any scripts in /usr/lib/uucp/Systems
would fail. I found a work around. The first time you make a connection,
dial out on your computer to the other machine. Then it seems to work
fine in both directions. Don't know why, but I am suspicious of the
respawn in inittabs. Another thing to check is that your Systems file
looks like:

theirsys ACU theirbaud theirphnumber "" \r gin:--gin: theirlog word: theirword

where the "" \r is important according to the docs.

	John