From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 11:12:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06915 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06887 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:11:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20286; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:11:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA25429; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:39:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810161439.PAA25429@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Mr. Shannon Kurtas" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Argh!! PPP won't dial! In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Oct 1998 15:16:30 EDT." <002d01bdf870$51953340$648067cf@clavikal.voicenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:39:24 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > grrr...i configured everything....goto dial and get this.. > > ppp ON> dial ISP > Dial attempt 1 of 1 > Warning: DialModem: dial failed. > ppp ON> >From the ppp prompt: set log local chat then set dial "something that works" set login "something that works" As suggested in the man page, why don't you use ``term'' to connect manually and then set up the ppp.conf file. > -distressed bsd newbie -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message