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to: Mike Powell
from: Charles Stephenson
date: 2019-05-26 07:22:18
subject: Linux & Modems

Re: Linux & Modems
  By: Mike Powell to CHARLES STEPHENSON on Fri May 24 2019 10:54 am

 MP> I did not have to do anything to my kernel. I did have to hook up a USB to
 MP> serial conversion cable to get my USR Sportster to work. Then all I had to
 MP> do was tell sexpots which device to listen to. Sexpots answers the modem
 MP> and then makes the telnet connection to the board, connecting the modem
 MP> call to my dosemu session that runs my DOS bbs.

 MP> I set the device in the sexpots.ini file. For my system, it
 MP> is /dev/ttyUSB0.

I have sexpots configured, I have my VOIP configured with a phone number (from
my Google voice), I'll have to ad that /dev/ttyUSB0 as the dev that points to
my modem. I can't remember how to redirect it to /dev/modem. I'll have to
google that....
Regards,
  KrUpTiOn
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