I sent the following to Equinox tech support, but I was hoping a kind Debian guru can tell me what the problem is.
We are using Debian Linux with an Equinox SST box to offer some users free PPP dialup. Most everything appears to be working fine except that Windows users are not automatically logging in. The Windows users should just be able to enter the phone number, username and password. But for some reason they are not logging in. I had one of the users test it with bring up a terminal window after dialing and he is able to login and initiate ppp without problems, but we need the process to work the way it should. The login prompt is not being displayed until after one hits the enter key once. Mark, a windows user, has been dialing in on Q07, in inittab it has Q07:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D -s 115200 -m '"" ATZ OK"' ttyQ1a7 I also asked Mark to dial in with HyperTerminal to confirm that the login prompt was not appearing until he pressed enter, and he confirmed that is the case. The following may not be helpful, but maybe it is. dialup prompt news!login: telnet prompt news login: Part of /etc/mgetty/login.config # This is the "standard" behaviour - *dont* set a userid or utmp # entry here, otherwise /bin/login will fail! # This entry isn't really necessary: if it's missing, the built-in # default will do exactly this. # * - - /bin/login @ The following are some mgetty enties of failed logins, and successful logins using the manual bring up the termal window. -- 03/04 15:41:01 1a7 mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.18-Sep11 03/04 15:41:01 1a7 check for lockfiles 03/04 15:41:01 1a7 locking the line 03/04 15:41:02 1a7 lowering DTR to reset Modem 03/04 15:41:02 1a7 send: ATZ[0d] 03/04 15:41:02 1a7 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 03/04 15:41:03 1a7 waiting... 03/04 15:46:33 1a7 wfr: waiting for ``RING'' 03/04 15:46:33 1a7 send: ATA[0d] 03/04 15:46:33 1a7 waiting for ``CONNECT'' ** found ** 03/04 15:46:53 1a7 send: 03/04 15:46:53 1a7 waiting for ``_'' ** found ** 03/04 15:46:55 ##### data dev=ttyQ1a7, pid=12205, caller='none', conn='115200', name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd', user='/AutoPPP/' -- 03/04 15:50:01 1a7 mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.18-Sep11 03/04 15:50:01 1a7 check for lockfiles 03/04 15:50:01 1a7 locking the line 03/04 15:50:02 1a7 lowering DTR to reset Modem 03/04 15:50:02 1a7 send: ATZ[0d] 03/04 15:50:02 1a7 waiting for ``OK'' 03/04 15:50:02 1a7 found action string: ``NO CARRIER'' 03/04 15:50:02 1a7 init chat failed, exiting...: Invalid argument 03/04 15:50:02 ##### failed in mg_init_data, dev=ttyQ1a7, pid=12225 -- 03/04 15:50:03 1a7 mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.18-Sep11 03/04 15:50:03 1a7 check for lockfiles 03/04 15:50:03 1a7 locking the line 03/04 15:50:03 1a7 lowering DTR to reset Modem 03/04 15:50:04 1a7 send: ATZ[0d] 03/04 15:50:04 1a7 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 03/04 15:50:04 1a7 waiting... 03/04 16:17:17 1a7 wfr: waiting for ``RING'' 03/04 16:17:17 1a7 send: ATA[0d] 03/04 16:17:17 1a7 waiting for ``CONNECT'' ** found ** 03/04 16:17:37 1a7 send: 03/04 16:17:37 1a7 waiting for ``_'' ** found ** 03/04 16:17:53 ##### data dev=ttyQ1a7, pid=12226, caller='none', conn='115200', name='', cmd='/bin/login', user='marksamm' -- Thanks, Chuck
