From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 08:11:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA03977 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA03968 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-15.ime.net [206.231.148.144]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA04929; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 10:17:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <322C3DE8.1AE2@ime.net> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 10:17:12 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Bernacki CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Can't find my external modem References: <199609031324.JAA13485@soma.zipnet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Bernacki wrote: > > This may be a dumb question, but bear with me. I just aqcuired a > FreeBSD box, and immediately wanted to get a PPP connection up > and running. Excellent, throw a modem on COM1 and test it out. > Unfortunately, I can't make FreeBSD find the modem. Here's what > I'm doing: > > # ppp > PPP Prompt> set line /dev/cuaa0 > PPP Prompt> term > [Term started, etc.] > > Then, nothing. Nothing going to or from the modem. I've tried > /dev/cuaa1 and /dev/cuaa2 just to make sure my COM ports weren't > screwed up, but none of that works. I know this is a good modem > (I use it on another machine). My question is: how can I tell if > FreeBSD is even detecting this modem? > > Thanks for your time, > -S It's "set device" not "set line" ie: ppp> set device /dev/cuaa0 -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848