OK, I've found a reasonably elegant way to hook a phone into a modem that is connected/in my LTSP terminal and have it work with vgetty running on my server.
Here is a preliminary step-by-step set of instructions with minimal explanation. I'll be happy to explain any step that anyone has questions with. A caveat is that I haven't used this for more than an hour or so, so I'm sure there will be problems. One of the reasons I'm posting this is in the hope that others will try this and we can make this a robust solution in a short time. Here's the procedure:
1) Get remserial from http://lpccomp.bc.ca/remserial/ and compile it
2) Copy remserial to the ltsp bin directory
3) Edit inittab in the ltsp etc directory and add the line
e:345:respawn:/bin/remserial -d -p 23000 -s "38400 raw" /dev/ttyS1
[You may need to change ttyS1 to ttyS0 if that is where your modem is connected]
4) Edit lts.conf and add the following line to make sure the serial modules get loaded
MODULE_01 = serial
5) Restart your LTSP terminal
6) On your server, copy remserial to /sbin
7) Edit /etc/inittab on your server and add the following lines
S0:345:respawn:/sbin/remserial -r wildeb -p 23000 /dev/ptyp0 S1:345:respawn:/sbin/vgetty ttyp0
[wildeb is the name of the LTSP terminal and needs to be changed to whatever your LTSP terminal is named, ptyp0 and ttyp0 need to be kept in sync for each terminal you are going to run vgetty on; 23000 is the IP port used for communication - this also will possibly need changing]
8) telinit q to get your server to reread inittab.
9) tail -f /var/log/vgetty.log.ttyp0 to watch vgetty in action
a) Getting vgetty and getting it to work are left as an exercise for the reader.
Kent
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