vgetty and USB modems

[Justin Zygmont]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Frank Cox wrote:

> I am building what amounts to a fancy answering machine.  I have three modems,
> one Diamond Supra that's serial only and two USR modems that have both serial
> and USB port.  The ultimate objective is to use the Diamond to receive fax
> calls and the USR's to receive voice calls.
>
> When I put one of the USR modems on the serial port, a
> file /var/log/vgetty.log.ttyS0 is created and it works great.
>
> When I put the Diamond modem on ttyS0 and the USR modems on USB connections,
> they show up as ttyACM0 and ttyACM1.  I can control them fine using minicom.
> But I have been playing around with voice.conf all afternoon and having exactly
> zero luck getting it to talk to those modems on the USB ports.
>
> I have been working with this line:
>
> voice_devices ttyACM0:ttyACM1
>
> I have put into various parts of voice.conf, starting with the vm section, then
> in generic and everywhere else that I thought it might work.
>
> Every time I boot the computer, vgetty initializes the modem on ttyS0, even if
> I don't have ttyS0 listed in voice.conf at all.  It never hits ttyACM0 or
> ttyACM1.  There is no log file created that references ttyACM0 or 1 in any way
> that I can see, and the lights on those modems never flash.
>
> So, what am I doing wrong here?

its probably starting it from /etc/inittab, do you see the S0 line in 
there?