Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 05:58:47 -0300 From: Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Derrick Springer" <mc_knight@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP help w/ Release 2.2.5 Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980406055655.00ad0690@pop.mpc.com.br>
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Let's try something easier: Can you tell exactly the command you're using to call ppp ? would it be ppp <enter> or ppp -alias [your_provider's_name_here] or ppp -auto [your_provider's_name_here] or ppp -alias -auto [your_provider's_name_here] ??? In the example ppp.conf (from the URL below) you would call ppp by ppp -alias provedor At 01:00 AM 4/5/98 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: >Try connecting then `load default' and `load provider'. Does that >help ? Do you see any errors or warnings in the log file ? > >> >OK. You have a problem with you initialization string, probably. >> > >> >Maybe it sounds crazy, but it happened to me once. >> >> As crazy as it sounds, I tried it, but it still didn't work. >> I can't get the PPP program to load the settings for my provider from >> the ppp.conf file. It just won't look at it. >> >> <snip> >> >> >If all fails, try using this: >> > >> >http://www.nettaxi.com/citizens/E.Brandi/ppp.conf >> > >> >> Tried it and the ones that come with the installation. I even tried >> USING the sample files by copying them as ppp.conf and it won't even >> look for "provider" that was written in the sample! >> >> Like I said before, if I execute all the commands manually into PPP (ie. >> "set device...", "set speed..." to "add 0 0 HISADDR") I get a good, >> solid connection with no problems. Dialing isn't my problem, but >> auto-dialing & loading the provider settings is. >> >> Help! >> >> Derrick >> mc_knight@hotmail.com >> >> ______________________________________________________ >> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- >Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; >Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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