Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 23:42:44 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net> To: RexFelis <catlord17@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP has a mind of it's own! Message-ID: <20030514181244.GB594@dhumketu.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <20030514150047.48384.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030514150047.48384.qmail@web40414.mail.yahoo.com>
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+++ RexFelis [freebsd] [14-05-03 08:00 -0700]: | 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 | ------------------------------ have u enabled firewall? whats the o/p of # ipfw show Regards, Shantanu -- Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal.
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