Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 08:00:47 -0700 (PDT) From: RexFelis <catlord17@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP has a mind of it's own! Message-ID: <20030514150047.48384.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030514062407.554AA37B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hello, I am enjoying learning FreeBSD but I have come to a strange little showstopper for which I can think of no rational explanation, and find no information in my researches. I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed on /dev/ad2s1 and it runs beautifully. The installation was experimental, but as I learned more, I decided I need more space. So I cleared out half my first disk and set up a 15 gig partition for FreeBSD there. Strangely enough, though, while the partition on the second hard drive holds the same OS installed from the same CD, the two installations are acting very differently when it comes to connecting to the internet. I can connect to the internet through the new install (I am using PPP), but I seem to be getting no response whenever I try to do anything. Ports can't be fetched, web pages don't open, and pings never go. I see that the lights on the modem flash for both outgoing, and occasionally returning packets, but nothing else happens. I tried using dd to copy the partitions from my old install to my new install, and while that produced working ppp, it also recreated the exact size of those partitions. I tried using 'cp -pRv' to carefully copy the partition contents across, and that also worked on the ppp problem, but created a problem with KDE not loading correctly for anyone but root. XFree shows up, but nothing else happens from the weave-patterned screen. I have also tried just copying across the contents of /etc/ppp, but to no avail. How can it be that I am having such different responses from PPP on two installs from the same CD? By the way, for those who would advise me to use 4.x... I have done that, too, and - yep - I have the same exact problem. I'm stumped. Anyone have any ideas? Please??? Shannon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
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