From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 12:26:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28181 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:26:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28145 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:26:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA02089; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:26:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:26:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: inTEXT Communications cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd PPP -dialin In-Reply-To: <3555EC61.3CD55FE8@intextonline.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 May 1998, inTEXT Communications wrote: > I hope this doesnt appear to be a vague type of question. > > For 1.5 weeks I have been trying to get ppp to answer in server mode and > it seems nothing I do is working. > > Im running 2.2.6 > > This is as far as I can get; > I have configured ttys for /dev/ttyd1 libexec/getty > > I now have the system answering as an incomming modem in terminal mode. > > I have tried everythng it says to do..word for word in the manual..along > with 5 other people..all working on one machine. Not one of us have > less then 3 years Linux experience. > > We have tried compiling mgetty in PPP-Auto mode....tried configuring the > scripts that run in /etc/ppp, > and the end product is......the system does not answer...at > all...period.. > > It looks like an mgetty problem..... Did you set up mgetty with the proper setup, then add it to /dev/ttys, then run `kill -1 1' to start it? Mgetty isn't expecting the modem to answer itself (ie auto-answer mode), is it? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message