Since this is your second post on the subject I will take a wack at it and if nothing else hopefully draw in someone with more knowledge. The first thing I would do is comment out your line in inittab and use the RH GUI tools to try and make the modem work to connect to AOL. I don't use RH so I can't tell you what to look for exactly but I would look through the menus for something that says PPP or networking or control panel or system configuration. You may have a WinModem but I think they are handled fairly well these days. When that works then I would add the inittab entry. WordenCar at aol.com wrote: > "s3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x 4 ttyS2" in /etc/inittab and reboot, I After reading the inittab man page, I think the id should be s2, to match the tty. On my Mandrake 9.1 system there is no man page for mgetty but I do have agetty which seems like what you would want. I seem to remember that you are going to have someone logging into your system to do some system maintenance. I hope that you don't have to give them root access. Even if you trust them not to do anything bad intentionally, sometimes people do really bad things by accident. Oh, that sounds like fun a discussion thread! Just from reading the man page (and my meager knowledge) I'm guessing that this is what you want: /sbin/agetty -m -I 'ATZ' ttyS2 115200,19200,9600 You will need to add modem commands to set up the modem for receiving calls and maybe other things. I would start reading here: http://www.modem.com/glossary/glos10.html or http://www.modemhelp.org or http://www.modemhelp.net You may also want to read the agetty man page for other options. For testing/set up purposes I think you could use the '-L' option and connect the modem of this computer directly with the modem of another computer - just put a phone cable between the two computers. So putting together what I have been able to come up with: s2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -m -I 'ATZ' ttyS2 115200,19200,9600 While the machine is booting I suggest crossing your fingers and clicking your heals together while wearing ruby slippers. ;-) -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list