From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 14:33:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09256 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:33:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09010 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04505; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:31:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: rick hamell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP/Modem Problem In-Reply-To: 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 On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, rick hamell wrote: > > > Hello all, I've got a rather strange problem happening now. Last > night I changed my PPP timeout in ppp.conf to 1200 from 600. After that, > I rebooted the system to check some hardware settings, didn't change > anything. Aftewards, it came back up, and I started to telnet out. The > modem now dials the phone number, then makes one loud beep, it then > proceeds to try and connect for about 25 seconds, it fails and tries > again. In fact it tried all night! This has nothing to do with FreeBSD, btw; it's strictly a modem-modem issue. You changed your dialup pool. it sounds like and now you're tripping over the v.80 tone. Add some commas after the dial string to enforce a delay so that the modem doesn't hear the tone. > :) This morning, I've changed the timeout back, pulled the modem and > reseated it. Left the system off for several hours, checked and > rechecked all my hardware settings. Does anyone have any idea what's > going on? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message