From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 14:25:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA17400 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:25:26 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA17391 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:25:20 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA19536; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:16:05 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510252116.OAA19536@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Dialin problems To: shepner@Eris.Manchester.EDU (User Shepner) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:16:05 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510252114.QAA05028@Eris.Manchester.EDU> from "User Shepner" at Oct 25, 95 04:14:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1304 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I have a USR Sportster 14.4 modem connected to my FreeBSD2.0R system. The > serial ports are using the 16550 UARTS. When I dialin to there, all that > happens is I connect and never get a login prompt. > > ps shows (when when there is a connection): > 4589 d0 Ss+ 0:00:29 /usr/libexec/getty V19200 ttyd0 > > The modem seems to be configured correctly (and I have through the FreeBSD > handbook for addl ideas/suggestions). Infact, at one point in time, I had this > running fine till the modem was needed elsewhere for a while (big mistake). > > Communications seem to be fine. I had dialed out with tip (after turning > dialup off) connected with the other computer, and was able to send/receive > messages w/o problems. > > Am I overlooking somthing? This seems like a config problem but I cant seem > to find it. Any help is greatly appreciated. Yeah, what are you dialing in from and what revision is the modem firmware? US Robotics Sportster's had a bug where an incoming call from a Rockewll chipset based modems would cause the Sportster to hang. It's corrected by a firmware update from US Robotics. This may not be your particular problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.