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Date:      Sun, 17 Jun 2001 13:16:17 -0700
From:      "Crist Clark" <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Modem/PPP Problem
Message-ID:  <3B2D1011.B9F3F2A9@globalstar.com>

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I am having a strange problem with a PCMCIA modem and PPP on a 
-STABLE (actually, I think it is from the 4.3-BETA period) box.
Things work... kind of...

  ppp ON blossom> term
  at
  OK
  atdt5551234
  CONNECT
  .
  .

Is what I see, eventually. But as I type, this is how it looks after
I type the 'at' command,

  ppp ON blossom> term
  a

But then as I start to type the 'atdt<number>' more and more of the
conversation echoes back. If I keep hitting <enter> I see more and
more of what happened earlier in the conversation.

Since I know how the login proceedes, I can guess at when to type my
login name and password, and that part seems to work. I get 
replies from the device on the other end that things have worked.
However, I never successfully switch into packet mode. I've tried
letting it auto sense packet mode and telling it to switch (~p).

I am not sure if these two issues are related. Nor do I know if the
echo problem is software related (ppp(8) or pccard), or if it is
a hardware problem (I've used this modem, Megahertz XJ4336, 
w/o problems in other PCs and it still works fine under Windoze on
a different machine).

Has anyone seen this problem? Any ideas of what might be going on?
If more information is needed, I do have some _long_ PPP logs, but
did not include them here. I do get the famous "sio overflow" errors
from time to time, but not sure if that has any bearing on the issue.

Thanks for any help.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                                Network Security Engineer
crist.clark@globalstar.com                    Globalstar, L.P.
(408) 933-4387                                FAX: (408) 933-4926

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