mgetty - dialin modem 12.04 LTS

[Ric Moore]

On 10/25/2012 05:01 PM, Linda wrote:
> Just set up a computer with 12.04 LTS.  I installed mgetty. I also
> installed mgetty doc and feel really stupid because I can't find where
> the documentaion was placed on the machine I thought it use to go in
> /usr/share/doc ? Anyway can someone tell me where the documentation is
> located?
> Also maybe someone has a suggestion on what has changed. I copied the
> following file used for 10.04LTS to /etc/init/ttyS1
>
>
> # ttyS1 - mgetty
> #
> # This service maintains a getty on tty1 from the point the system is
> # started until it is shut down again.
>
> start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]
> stop on runlevel [!2345]
>
> respawn
> exec /sbin/mgetty -D ttyS1
>
> When I try to dial in the modem fails to answer so I checked out
> /var/log/mgetty and here is the log entry
>
> 0/25 15:47:43 yS1 mgetty: interim release 1.1.36-Jun15
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 tio_get_rs232_lines: TIOCMGET failed: Input/output error
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 TIOCMBIC failed: Input/output error
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 cannot turn off soft carrier: Input/output error
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 tcgetattr failed: Input/output error
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 cannot get TIO: Input/output error
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 tio_get_rs232_lines: TIOCMGET failed: Input/output error
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 TIOCMBIC failed: Input/output error
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 cannot turn off soft carrier: Input/output error
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 tcgetattr failed: Input/output error
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 cannot get TIO: Input/output error
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 mg_init_device failed, exiting: Input/output error
> 10/25 15:47:44 yS1 cannot get terminal line dev=ttyS1, exiting:
> Input/output error
>
>
> It looks like the init of ttyS1 is failing to me but looking online all
> I find are old HowTos  that went with setting this up back a few versions.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Back from the days when I had to contend with 8 modems on a Linux based 
BBS that I used to run, did you configure your init string same as your 
old install?? THAT shouldn't change at all. I hope you still have it 
safely filed away. Ric


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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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