mgetty conflicts with pppd

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

I'm having some weird interaction between mgetty and pppd/chat.
I have mgetty running on a couple of modems. When I dialout (pon),
I start getting error messages from mgetty in the log, like

05/01 20:47:09 yS1  mdm_read_byte: read returned 0: Success
05/01 20:47:09 yS1  wfr: error in read(): Success
05/01 20:47:09 yS1  huh? Junk on the line?

However, mgetty manages to send a few CRs through or something which
causes my chat script to fail (it aborts the connection). When I disable
mgetty on that port in inittab, it works just fine. The other modem port
has this problem on occasion too, although it runs a 24x7 connection
so I don't notice it much.

Is there a workaround? It's most annoying and has been bugging me for a while.

Hamish
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