Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:25:47 +1000 From: "Young" <young@richardson.apana.org.au> To: "Christopher Michaels" <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unable to connect to ISP via PPP (was: aliening and freetel) Message-ID: <011e01beefdf$a9086e00$857e03cb@jdy>
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-----Original Message----- From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Young' <young@richardson.apana.org.au> >>From the looks of what you sent me below, the ppp isn't connecting or >configuring properly. There's absolutely no ip listed for tun0 which is the >interface that ppp uses. Well after more tearing hair out frustration and about five re-installs I found a package that seems to be essential to user-ppp ... I've never seen any reference to it in ppp related documentation but with it missing I get the AT errors and with it installed the modem responds OK so it sure looks to be critical > >After you login, etc.. are you pressing ~P? and if so does the ppp prompt >do this: >ppp bryden> >Ppp bryden> >PPp bryden> >PPP bryden> Whenever i tconnects, it always gets to "PPP" with no problem, just doesn't stay connected for more than three minutes. Why doesn't it know to look at the "set timeout 0" line in ppp.conf ?? > >As for copying the config file to the floppy? >cp /etc/ppp.conf /mnt > Ahhhhhh ..... I found a better way .... remember the old "mtools" trick :) :) :) I used it in linux but only just found the BSD version. It suits me a heap more than that "mount" insanity !!!!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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