Re: Null Modem(WMU Apt. connection)

[Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>I have WMU null modem connection at the appartments. I would like to 
know if
>>anyone knows howto get this modem connceted under linux redhat 6.2. I 
have
>>tried a lot of stuff, the max to where I got was to get it connected 
using
>>terminal window to telnet, which means it connects but dono howto get 
it
>>connceted to authenticate my user name and passwd using ppp. Please 
help.
>If you can figure it out you may want to share that info. with TCS or 
the Help
>Desk.  I know a lot of people have come into TCS wanting to know how to 
do this.

Let me get this straight, you have an RS-232 serial port in your 
apartment?
And there is a terminal server or UNIX box on the other end?  I hope they
realize the consquences of someone sticking the bare end of an extension
cord in there.

Anyway, if all the above assumptions are true....  You get a "login:"
prompt if you point something like minicom (serial terminal emulator)
are the port?  I'm a little confused by "using the terminal window to
telnet"?   Did you issue a telnet command at a router/terminal server
prompt?  If so any idea what make of router (Xyplex, Cisco, ....). Or
do you think it's an actual UNIX box?  I don't no anything about the 
WMU network, but I've done this kind of thing lots of times.