From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 14:41:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10699 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10675 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrF-34.aei.ca [206.186.205.34]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA21718; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:40:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35EDBB31.2CFFD3C5@aei.ca> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 17:40:01 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eddie Irvine CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Thain Subject: Re: PPP References: <01bdd644$c058b0c0$ac1a1acb@gretchen> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eddie Irvine wrote: > > >HI, > > I have a problem setting up the ppp to connect to my ISP... I think that I > >have all the configuration correct in the ppp.conf and ppp.linkup but I > >when I try "dial provider" I get "WARNING: DialModem: dial failed." I have > >the phone line plugged in correctly and the phone line is free. If you > >could tell me what the problem might be I'd greatly appreciate it > > Could be lots of things, Chris. > First, make sure you can dial up manually > (from the ppp command line prompt) - > see the pedantic ppp primer for details. > > >Thanks, > >Chris > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message It take from 1 to 5 time before my ppp dial correctly and login correctly. I think the Bell line are noisy. You should edit your ppp.conf and add a redial process. Try it, and if it dont work, dial manually Something like ppp term atz atd 7654321 (the phone numbers) Read the man page. -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message