Topic: Modem wont pickup on dial in

[Danny Wong]

I have installed e-smith-dialin-0.4-2.noarch.rpm.  Everything is great apart from the fact that it doesnt work.  The modem is there, I can dial out using
echo ATDT 5555555 >/dev/ttyS3

The problem is that my modem wont pick up the incoming call.  I have tried various solutions listed here, and even saw an old posting of this same problem but no solution.  has anyone had this problem?  Has anyone FIXED this problem?

Thank you.

Danny

[Nathan Fowler]

Who makes the modem, you need to send the ATS0=X where X is number of rings.  Some 3Com/USR modems have dip switches that allow you to manually set auto-answer.  You may also need to adjust your init string.

Hope this helped,
Nathan

[Danny Wong]

It is an old Zoltrix modem.  The only Non-US Robotics/winmodem I have.  
mgetty.config has rings set to 1.  Which init script do you reffer to?

[Dave]

> you need to send the ATS0=X where X is number of rings.  Some
> 3Com/USR modems have dip switches that allow you to manually
> set auto-answer.

Using auto-answer isn't very clever. It means the modem will answer wether or not the host machine is able to accept the call or not. Meaning a wasted (chargeable?) call to the caller.

A better solution is to look for the "RING" strings from the modem and the host then sends "ATA" after a predetermined number of them. This means that calls are only answered when the host system is ready and able to handle them.

Cheers
Dave.

[Danny Wong]

mgetty.config has rings 1.  Is this the only place to set this?  Even with this set, the modem never picks up.  Could this be a hardware problem?  Or am I just to novice to know exactly how to configure a modem in e-smith.  Seems like every 'fix' I find requires me to modify a file that e-smith modifys with templates and therefore my changes dissapear sooner than later. (not skilled enough to modify templates yet.)

[Danny Wong]

I am finding posts about spawning mgetty.  Is there a script I need to modify to get mgetty to continually listen on com4?

[Danny Wong]

Anyone!!!!!!!!!!  Please!

[Danny Wong]

I guess I'll just make a regular linux box for this.  There are too many sacred files in e-smith to get this working consistantly.