Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 00:14:44 +0000 From: David Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com> To: fgsfgs erdfa <siliconspectre@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My PPP connection Message-ID: <20010520001443.A3197@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <F178Lch9wPiyAphwFut000062a2@hotmail.com>; from siliconspectre@hotmail.com on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:06:23AM -0000 References: <F178Lch9wPiyAphwFut000062a2@hotmail.com>
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You could try a simple test - as root type
cu -l cuaa1
also try cuaa0, you should get a response to at commands;
connected.
atz
OK
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On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:06:23AM -0000, fgsfgs erdfa wrote:
> Hello,
> I have been trying to get ppp to work for quite some time now (about 3 weeks
> if not more). I have been having problems with ppp since I first tried it.
> Well anyway, I started out using ppp with a 28.8kbps USR internal modem.
> This modem worked twice for getting ppp online. It would dial the number
> and even connect to my isp's server, but then it would hangup for no reason.
> After numerous times of trying to get this modem to work, I gave up and
> went out to buy a new one. The new one I bought was a 56k USR external
> modem. I plugged it all in and when I tried to dial my isp, it told me that
> the "chat script failed". This is my current problem, getting this new
> modem to work. I would also like to add that in addition to the fact that
> it tells me that the chat script has failed, I cannot hear my modem dialing
> any number, even when I turn the volume all the way up, and also, at the
> startup, when I use scroll-lock to look at all the devices which have been
> probed, I cannot find any modem at all. I have even went inside my computer
> to check if the wires which connected my modems plug to the motherboard were
> plugged in, they were. I plug my modem into the com1 port (or cuaa0). I
> dont think there is a problem with my serial wires either. I have a 25pin
> end connecting to my USR modem and a 9pin end connecting to my computer. I
> am thinking that maybe the system is just not recognizing my modem but if
> that is the case, then wouldn't it tell me that the device name cuaa0 is
> invalid when I go to dial papchap? Please, even if you do not have an
> answer to my question, can you point me in the right direction to someone
> who may? I have been so eager to get my freebsd box online and I do not
> want to see all the money I have paid for modems and the freebsd OS and
> freebsd books go to waste.
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