Unable to dial into machine

[Chakravarthi V S_2]

Hi,

I have a L-class machine with hayes compatible modem connected, using this i'm able to dial out and when we try to dial-in it says verifying username and password then disconnects,, do i need to do any changes in the system

looking forward for replies

chakri

[Stuart Browne]

What have you currently done in order to get the modem to answer?

By defualt, no Linux distribution I've ever seen has configured tty's to answer incoming dialin on a modem.

Are you using 'mgetty', or 'agetty' to handle the tty? or some 3rd part terminal software?

Have you confingured PPPd to allow the dial-up connection you appear to be using?

[Ron Kinner]

Assuming you are running mgetty (which is by far the easiest to do) you should have something in a ps aux output like:


root 281 0.0 0.1 732 16 3 S Nov 6 0:00 (mingetty) tty2
root 287 0.0 2.0 892 300 ? S Nov 6 0:00 /sbin/mgetty -x9 -s19

If you don't then look at:

http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/pers.html

Ron