From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 11 11:52:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15452 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 11:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15421 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 11:52:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10707; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 19:41:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA03500; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:51:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809111651.RAA03500@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: The Thains cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: term command on ppp In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Sep 1998 22:10:02 PDT." <3.0.5.32.19980909221002.00799e20@bcinternet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:51:34 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Brian , , 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