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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Modem dial-in problem
Date: 31 Aug 1996 15:51:12 GMT
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karianto@iss.nus.sg (Karianto Leman) wrote:

> With the above, connection was actually established (known from a message
> prompted "CONNECT 14400") but then system hang, the getty refused to 
> transform into login process. Did I miss out something? 

Are you sure your cable forwards the DCD signal?  Getty is sleeping
on that signal.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)