Thanks to everyone for the help. I'm just starting to learn scripting. I'm
also going to get the O'Reilly book on Expect. Someone else suggested that
as a good place to start.
Nico, you may want to look at the IBM support site for the driver for your
modem. I just did a quick search and apparently there is a driver listed for
the 570E. When I downloaded the driver I'm using, it only listed the 600E,
not the 600 as being supported, but it worked anyway.
Thanks,
Michael
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Nico Krzebek wrote:
> Lucky you! I didn't get the softmodem on my TP570 (lucent modem) into a
> working state.
>
> Since your script needs to be run just once after system boot, you could
> for instance append the line
>
> /path_to_script/acpsetup
>
> to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, so it gets automatically executed when your box
> switches to runlevel 2, 3 or 5. If you want it to be run only in certain
> runlevels (e.g. 5) make a link named S99z_acpsetup in /etc/rc5.d/, i.e. you
> type
>
> ln -s /path_to_script/acpsetup /etc/rc5.d/S99z_acpsetup
>
> This way you don't have to su or anything like that.
>
> Good luck,
> Nico
>
> On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:49, you wrote:
> > I have an IBM 600 laptop running 7.2 and it has an internal ACP (Win
> > Modem). I downloaded a driver from the IBM website and installed it fine
> > and the modem works well. It's just that after start-up and rebooting, I
> > have to su in and give root password and issue the following commands.
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > cd /usr/mwave/mw*
> > insmod mwavedd
> > setserial ttyS1 autoconfig
> > ./mwavem
> >
> > I wrote a script to do this portion called acpsetup. How do I write the
> > script to have it login as su and supply the password and issue the
> > commands. I'd like to get it down to one simple ./acpsetup command to
> > handle everything.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Michael
