Haven't tried this myself yet, but it looked interesting: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_dialin_server -- ========== Todd Young -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Thomas Johnson" <tommyj27 at gmail.com> > I've been playing around with the idea of setting up a modem on my > home server to dial in and get access to home and the internet (via > bluetooth/cell, yes I know how slow it is). The server in question is > running Ubuntu 6.06 and I followed the guide at > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=150339. > > Thus far I have been mostly unsuccessful at even getting the modem to > pick up, when I dial in I hear a click (presumably the modem picking > up) followed by another click several seconds later (hanging up?). the > mgetty log file shows activity that doesn't look correct, but I'm no > expert so I really don't know what I'm looking at. > > The only success I've had at getting the two modems to talk to each > other was when I happened to have a 'cat /dev/ttyS0' running in > another terminal, the modems negotiated and the client tried to > authenticate but got nowhere. > > I'm not sure what isn't set up right with mgetty, it looks pretty > straight-forward, mgetty handles the connection, then fires up pppd to > handle the authentication. I am copying my log output from mgetty and > hoping that someone here has some experience that they haven't > forgotten since dial-up became yesterday's news. > > 01/25 23:40:03 yS0 mgetty: interim release 1.1.33-Apr10 > 01/25 23:40:03 yS0 check for lockfiles > 01/25 23:40:03 yS0 checklock: stat failed, no file > 01/25 23:40:03 yS0 locking the line > 01/25 23:40:03 yS0 makelock(ttyS0) called > 01/25 23:40:03 yS0 do_makelock: lock='/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0' > 01/25 23:40:03 yS0 lock made > 01/25 23:40:03 yS0 tio_get_rs232_lines: status: RTS CTS DSR DTR > 01/25 23:40:03 yS0 lowering DTR to reset Modem > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 tss: set speed to 57600 (10001) > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 tio_set_flow_control( HARD ) > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 waiting for line to clear (VTIME=1), read: > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d] > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 waiting for ``OK'' > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 got: ATQ0V1H0[0d] > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 CND: ATQ0V1H0[0d][0a]OK ** found ** > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 send: AT[0d] > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 waiting for ``OK'' > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 got: [0d] > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 CND: OK[0a]AT[0d] > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 CND: AT[0d][0a]OK ** found ** > 01/25 23:40:04 yS0 waiting for line to clear (VTIME=3), read: [0d][0a] > 01/25 23:40:05 yS0 removing lock file > 01/25 23:40:05 yS0 waiting... > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 select returned 1 > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 checking lockfiles, locking the line > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 makelock(ttyS0) called > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 do_makelock: lock='/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0' > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 lock made > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 wfr: waiting for ``RING'' > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 got: [0d][0a]NO CARRIER > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 wfr: found action string: ``NO CARRIER'' > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 wfr: rc=-1, drn=0 > 01/25 23:45:29 ##### failed A_FAIL dev=ttyS0, pid=4763, caller='none' > > -- > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 mgetty: interim release 1.1.33-Apr10 > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 check for lockfiles > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 checklock: no active process has lock, will remove > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 locking the line > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 makelock(ttyS0) called > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 do_makelock: lock='/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0' > 01/25 23:45:29 yS0 lock made > 01/25 23:45:30 yS0 tio_get_rs232_lines: status: RTS CTS DSR DTR > 01/25 23:45:30 yS0 lowering DTR to reset Modem > 01/25 23:45:30 yS0 tss: set speed to 57600 (10001) > 01/25 23:45:30 yS0 tio_set_flow_control( HARD ) > 01/25 23:45:30 yS0 waiting for line to clear (VTIME=1), read: > 01/25 23:45:30 yS0 send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d] > 01/25 23:45:31 yS0 waiting for ``OK'' > 01/25 23:45:31 yS0 got: ATQ0V1H0[0d] > 01/25 23:45:31 yS0 CND: ATQ0V1H0[0d][0a]OK ** found ** > 01/25 23:45:31 yS0 send: AT[0d] > 01/25 23:45:31 yS0 waiting for ``OK'' > 01/25 23:45:31 yS0 got: [0d] > 01/25 23:45:31 yS0 CND: OK[0a]AT[0d] > 01/25 23:45:31 yS0 CND: AT[0d][0a]OK ** found ** > 01/25 23:45:31 yS0 waiting for line to clear (VTIME=3), read: [0d][0a] > 01/25 23:45:31 yS0 removing lock file > 01/25 23:45:31 yS0 waiting... > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list