Thanks Jens, here is some additional info. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > > > I have installed mgetty ( 1.0.0-1 ) and it works fine when I am dial-in > > from outside w95 machine. Now I tring to add PPP and here are > > the basic steps which were done: > > > > 1. Installing new kernel (2.0.27) with CONFIG_PPP=m > > You didn't use 'make config' or 'make xconfig'? When you recompiled > the kernel did you make modules and modules-install? You know, the > PPP module depends on others (can't think of them offhand). > I did it. > > 2. Then I edited Makefile in this way > > CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -pipe -DAUTO_PPP > > and slightly modified the policy.h > > Did you need to compile from source? The stock binary includes > AUTO_PPP support. > First I had problems with this binary. Trying to connect from w95 I got ... "The computer you're dialing in to cannot establish a Dial_Up Networking connection. Check your password, and try again." ... so I decided to compile from source. > > 3. Make; cp mgetty /sbin; rebot > > > > After this point I get the message > > "...S1, too fast respawning mgetty. Suspended for 5 min" or something > > like that. And that is all )-; > > If mgetty is respawning, something larger than ppp is probably wrong-- > it would never have a chance to take a login? Perhaps something you > did to the config is causing this. Did you change the config file? > Did you look in /var/log/mgetty/* for error messages? Here is the messages coresponding to the new compiled binary "lifetime" from /var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyS1.log. -- 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 mgetty: official release 1.0.0 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 check for lockfiles 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 locking the line 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 lowering DTR to reset Modem 05/15 14:16:55 yS1 send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d] 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 send: AT[0d] 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting... 05/15 14:45:01 ##### failed dev=ttyS1, pid=10653, got signal 15, exiting -- > > > > > Hope that someone can help me to overcome this. > > I'll try. I use mgetty/ppp all the time. Never compiled mgetty > myself. > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Eugene Sevinian ---------------------------- Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Phisics Institute Alikhanian's Brothers str.2 375036 Yerevan 36 Armenia URL: http://www.yerphi.am/crd/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-352041 (YerPhI), 374-2-344873 (aprt.) Fax: 374-2-350030 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
