Hi. On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:09:37 -0700 peter@easthope.ca wrote: > Traditionally, mgetty was started with a line such as this in /etc/inittab. > T0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 In Debian it's customary to use getty for the serial console. That line got the job done since etch was testing: T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 38400 vt100 mgetty is only used for the modems. Are you trying to setup a dial-up old fashioned way? Reco