Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 06:46:30 +0200 (EET) From: Charlie Roots <root@isis.dynip.com> To: Wei Weng <wweng@stevens-tech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ppp? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971212062406.1212A-100000@isis.dynip.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.971211212909.22089A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu>
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You seem to be having a problem with the FreeBSD recognizing your modem, this can eaily ruled out by the following: 1. when rebooting the kernel you must notice the lines describing sio0, sio1, sio2, sio3 these correspond to COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4 respectively. you don't have to reboot to watch this, instead issue the following command; dmesg | grep sio you should get output like this; sio0: at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1: at 0x2f8-02ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A sio2: SupraFaxModem at 0x3e8 sio2: type 16550A if you see your modem then it is recognized. to make sure everything is ok do the following; invoke ppp and ignore any warnings it may give; once inside ppp > prompt type then word term you will get teminal mode so you may directly speak with your modem using AT commands; at OK if you get an error when you type 'at' instead of 'OK' so the problem is confirmed with the modem. Note; some STUPID modems made specailly for windows 95 WILL NOT WORK, get rid of them immediately and buy a descent modem, and all your troubles will be GONE. Greetins On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Wei Weng wrote: > Hi > I am going to use ppp to connect to my school server. But in handbook it > says use ppp and set up some configuration files. I did. Then I got an > error "failed to open modem". Thou at the same time, I have /dev/modem > linked to /dev/cuaa4. and modem configured in my ppp.conf file. (I have > tried all other possibilities I mean other ports. but none worked. ) > > And I read the part of setup kernel ppp in handbook and there is a section > called working as ppp client. I checked it out and it said use pppd and > configure ppp.options and use kermit to connect. > > Then i got Totally confused. Which one I should use to connect? And does > anyone have a whole set of configuration files that can be shared with me? > I'd really like to see some examples. > > By the way, My school server assigns dynamic IP address to me. > > Thanks in advance. I'll really appreciate that. > > Wei Weng <---> wweng@stevens-tech.edu > Van Fantel <---> Kanzaki Hitomi > Tamahome <---> Miaka > Ikari shinji <---> Ayanami Rei > *Tenku no Escaflowne, Fushigi Yuugi, Shin Seiki Evangelion* > > MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. -------------------------- If you have trouble with my E-mail above, send to : osiris2002@yahoo.com and I'll get the mail.
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