From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 4:29: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F19614EA1 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 04:28:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11hADI-000H5p-00; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:28:56 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA05613; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:28:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:28:55 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: drew Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <000701bf21ce$c4112220$0100a8c0@dwef.iland.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How are you connecting? What prog do you use? That garbage is the serving waiting for the pppd daemon to start. You have to exit terminal mode and start pppd. -jm On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, drew wrote: >Hello, > > I am new to Linux and am having some trouble with my modem.....When I dail up it connects and logs in...Then is asigns me an ip number and sends me a bunch of ~y}!}!}!}A} } } } then the modem disconnects....Any help you could give me would be alot of help...... > > Thanks > Drew > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message