From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 14:08:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03266 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:08:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03171 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 21:07:59 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA07243; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:07:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dima Dorfman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fed up with PPP In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980416101818.00955100@207.213.224.25> 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, 16 Apr 1998, Dima Dorfman wrote: > That's it! I'm fed up with PPP. I can't get ANYTHING to work! I've been > trying for about 2 weeks, and havn't gotten anywhere. I tried user ppp, > kernel ppp, some third-party shareware, and Brian Somer's hacked PPP. > > I'm tired. nothing EVER works! Every program says my modem is busy, > however, when I do "echo "AT" >> /dev/cuaa1", the modem light blinks, > signilizing that it got the signal. You're not having any luck, are you? :-) If it says the modem is locked, check 1. Permissions. You may have to be in group `dialer'. 2. /var/spool/lock for a stale LCK..cuaa1 file. Generally, exact error messages are preferred. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message