On Mar 23 1998 at 10:13, Jonathan Michaels wrote:

 JM> i am a relative beginner as far as serial comms and unix (freebsd) 
 JM> is concerned, would one of you kind souls please take the time to step
 JM> me through the how-to of setting up a serial port and how to get a 
 JM> modem (data mode) so that i can get uucp running (ppp would be nice 
 JM> but its not important).

 JM> i have been looking at using a package called mgetty+sendfax, the 
 JM> fax side doesn't interst me much, its the damnable setops that i need 
 JM> to organise beofre i actually get to configuring mgetty and placing the 
 JM> enty into /etc/ttys (i think).

I've not used mgetty on a freebsd machine. But our Linux one has mgetty
being used to answer the phone (no outbound calls are made on this
machine). The config for mgetty was basicly a right out of the package
setup. The only bit's I needed to change was the requird port speed, and
turning off the fax support (We use a dedicated fax machine).

I'll post another message with the config file(s) that I used.

Stephen
Email: curl{at}tcc-comp.com.au

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