Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:51:34 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: The Thains <thain@bcinternet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: term command on ppp Message-ID: <199809111651.RAA03500@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Sep 1998 22:10:02 PDT." <3.0.5.32.19980909221002.00799e20@bcinternet.net>
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Sounds like your modem wasn't probed. The latest version of ppp is a
lot more forgiving in this respect (and tells you what it's doing).
What does ``dmesg | fgrep sio'' show ? Have any of the serial lines
been probed ? Before you do the ``term'', what does ``show modem''
say ?
> Hi..
> I have been having trouble setting up my ppp connection to my ISP. I have
> written in a couple of times and recieved info but nothing so far has
> seemed to work :( When I try 'dial provider' from the ppp prompt I get the
> message
> WARNING: DialModem: dial failed.
> Now someone told me to try and talk to the modem using the term command in
> ppp but everytime I try the command it seems as though my computer freezes.
> This is what the screen looks like:
>
> ppp ON phantom> term
> Working in interactive mode
> Entering terminal mode.
> Type '~?' for help.
>
> After this my computer freezes and I can't even use CTRL+C to break it...I
> have to reset it. I'm not at all familiar with the term command so if I'm
> doing something wrong or if there are certain commands that I need to know
> please let me know..
>
> Thank-you for your time
>
> Chris.
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