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to: Charles Stephenson
from: Kees van Eeten
date: 2019-05-24 11:20:04
subject: Linux & Modems

Hello Charles!

23 May 19 23:13, you wrote to All:

 CS> Wondering, I'm venturing into setting up my dial-up modem with linux, but
 CS> since (if I read it correct) by default, alot of distros don't support
 CS> them. I'd have to do something to my kernel.

 CS> Can anybody point me to some help sites/blogs/videos I can use to set my
 CS> modems up? I'm using Ubuntu 19.04 and I have a external 'linux compat' USB
 CS> 56k modem(s).

 All Debian derived distributions and others probably as well, have
"mgetty"
 getting it to work together with systemd is a challenge. Use it as a
 replacemnet for agetty on serialports. Scourge Google for mgetty for
 examples.

Kees

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