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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Peter David Roehsler <roehsler@dca.net>
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Subject: Re: modems
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Peter David Roehsler wrote:

> I have 2.2.1 running on a 486/33 with 8mgs of ram. I have a hayes 2400bps
> smartmodem attached to sio0. I know its slow, but its just for a test.
> 
> Now if I go to user PPP and run "term" I get garbage. I run tip to 
> cuaa0 and I get garbage. PPP fails. There is some traffic to the modem by
> the lights. When I say garbage, there are all these funky characters
> streaming accross the screen as I hit keys on the keyboard.

The baudrate is probably set wrong.  Run `set speed 2400' before you run
`term' in PPP.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major