Re: mgetty question

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On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 23:39 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
> I am using mgetty 1.1.33-9 on FC6 to collect Caller ID information from
> a USRobotics Courier external modem.
> 
> The problem is the Caller *name* is not being delivered to the
> cnd-program specified in mgetty.config
> 
> According to the mgetty doc, when cnd-program is specified in
> mgetty.config that program is called with several positional parameters:
>     port number/name.i.e ttyS0
>     calling number
>     calling name
>     called number (for ISDN modems only)
> 
> I get the port number and the calling number properly, but no name.
> 
> I know the name is reported because:
> 1 - I see it on telephones connected to the same phone line.
> 2 - The USRobotics modem reports it as part of the formatted display
> between the first and second ring
> 
> Other than that, mgetty is working very well for me. I can't find
> anything that documents how to coerce mgetty into passing the name to
> cnd-program...
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
I'd head over to US Robotic web pages and check out the init strings on
your modem. There is a variable to plug into your init string to enable
it. Wow! It's been a few years since I had to diddle with 8 modems and
their init strings at once. I don't miss the phone bill though! Ric

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