Is anyone using a USR Sportster 28,8 FAX modem and mgetty?

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Hello,

I have set up a slackware system and compiled and installed mgetty 1.1.9 (is 
this the newest release? if not where do I get an update?). I am trying to set 
up the system for dialin access and have some old USR 28,800 sportster fax 
modems I would like to set up. 

So far I have set up one modem on ttyS0, and set the modem to the factory 
settings. when I dial in from another computer (windows terminal) mgetty will 
answer the call, but I cannot get it to return a login prompt (just displays 
gibberish). This tells me that it is probably a comm problem between the modem 
and linux. I have looked at the mgetty docs, but can't find much info on USR 
modems so I do not know how the modem needs to be configed - are the factory 
settings OK? and, how should mgetty be configed to communicate with the USR (I 
have just the "default" install right now. The speed is set to 38400 and what 
about flow control and error checking? If anyone is running this same 
configuration can you please tell me how mgetty and your modem are configured?

Thanks,
-Bob


this is my /etc/inittab entry:

# Dialup lines
s0:345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -D -x8 /dev/ttyS0


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