Mgetty & Linux PPP-2.2.0a

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Hi,

Ah, I didn't lookup your mails :) -- yes, with the Cyclades cards, some
weird things happen for some people (Marc has one, and it works nicely,
strange enough). I can't really think of any reason why it should be
mgetty's fault -- after all, all I do is "out of the POSIX book", and it
works on dozens of platforms absolutely flawlessly :/

I *strongly* suspect some leftover bugs in the Cyclades drivers, that
mgetty happens to trigger and uugetty does not (there *are* weird things
in there that I can precisely describe, so why not others that cause
lockups?)

gert

PS: sorry for feeling attacked -- I *did* read it as an "mgetty is broken"
attack mail, shouldn't have done that. Too late, too tired, good night :)


Steve Thomas wrote:
> Everything WAS set up correctly..... even the device locking....
> 
> I went as far as removing and reinstalling the Cyclades 16 port box for a 
> new one....  the problems still remained.
> 
> After I removed it (mgetty) and went back to uugetty everything stopped 
> happening.  The modems stopped locking up.  I spent nearly 2months and 
> hundreds of hours on it.... talked to many different people about it...  
> including yourself....  Unless that there is a more recent versionwithin 
> the last few months (2months) I will not use mgetty.
> I loved the logs and the power that it showed.  BUt I could NOT deal with 
> the locking of the modems.  I even went as far as changing out the 
> sysinit program...  nothing I did fixed the problem until I did awaywith 
> mgetty.
> I am sorry but I am not the only person that has had problems with it...
> I really want to be able to utilize it... but I do not have the resources 
> to spend attempting to get it back on-line.....
> 
> maybe when I have a free moth, I might try it again....  seriously.. I 
> did and really do like the work on it...  but I could NOT handle the 
> problems associated with it.
> 
> This is NOT meant to be a negative attack on mgetty or you Gert, I had 
> too many problems with it... I *had* to swap it out.  Again I want to 
> stay on the mailing list because as newer developments with it happen, 
> maybe then I will reinstall it.  It's a GREAT program, but the headaches 
> were too much.
> 
> sorry....
> 
> steve thomas
> 
> 
> ****************************************************
>               steve@magnum.wpe.com
> ****************************************************                                 
> 
> On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > 
> > Steve Thomas wrote:
> > > I totally ditched MGETTY because the problems would NOT go away....
> > > when mgetty and PPP become stable enough....I will reinstall it 
> > > otherwise... I lost too much sleep over mgetty doing this to me...
> > 
> > What kind of crap is this? mgetty and ppp work *absolutely* *flawlessly*
> > together. It just needs reading + understanding of the manuals, and
> > correct setup of the device locking!
> > 
> > Dozens of people are using mgetty and ppp without any problems
> > whatsoever.
> > 
> > gert
> > 
> > -- 
> >                                                             //www.muc.de/~gert
> > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
> > fax: +49-89-3545980 <---new!!!              gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de
> > 
> 


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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-3545980 <---new!!!              gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de