From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 10:55:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA17605 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:55:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alaska.net (root@calvino.alaska.net [206.149.65.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA17569 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hmmm.alaska.net by alaska.net (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA17848; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:54:52 -0800 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:56:00 +0000 () From: hmmm To: "Paul T. Root" Cc: Richard Levenberg , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPD problems with direct serial connection In-Reply-To: <199609241308.IAA26137@horton.iaces.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Richard Levenberg said: > > > > No matter what I try I cant get past this timeout for LCP requests. Can > > anybody please help me or at least suggest something to try next. I do > > not want to use user ppp at this time, however. Thank you in advance. > > Please if you need any other information to help me just ask. I dont > > know what is important in this situation so I am just shooting in the > > dark. > > I use iijppp so I can't help on those, but are you sure your null modem > cable works correctly? Have you tried tipping from one to the other? > Start up a getty on one and tip to the other to confirm connectivity. > > Does the cable have everything for hardware handshaking? oooh! this reminds me - JW once posted a note about Null modem cables ... from what i can remember, Unix cables require something special (normal), i can't remember exactly, something about a special jumper that's required to modify standard cables, but you'll find the answer in the newsgroup archives - comp.os.unix.freebsd.misc (i think)