Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 05:37:55 -0700 (PDT) From: RexFelis <catlord17@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP has a mind of it's own? Message-ID: <20030519123755.52361.qmail@web40406.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030519083550.7ADE937B404@hub.freebsd.org>
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PPP problem update: I have been working to find and fix the PPP problem I was having on my own. Something someone said hgave me enough of an idea to try 'cp -pRv /etc/* /mnt/fbsd/a/etc' and this worked to fix the PPP problem. I had previously attempted to copy over the contents of PPP and the /etc/resolv.conf file as well, with no success. Copying the entire /etc over tells me there is some other file there that was stopping me. It can't be a firewall, because I never got far enough to configure one. Can anyone help me on which file it might have been? Remember, when I would connect to the internet, there were no error messages, and the data would go both ways in brief, intermitent bursts. There was communication both ways, I believe, only nothing was getting done - brief flash of transmit light on modem, wait wait wait, brief flash of transmit light, wait wait wait, brief flash of receive light, wait wait wait, brief flash of transmit, etc. For anyone else who might decide to try fixing this problem with the copy command, here is a word to the wise. Back up your fstab file first. The one from my new installation got overwritten, and now I somehow cannot get either installation to stop mounting at least one of the other installation's partitions. Even if I comment out or remove entirely the references to the other installation's partitions from fstab. This is what my current fstab file looks like... # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# #/dev/ad2s1b none swap sw 0 0 #/dev/ad2s1a /mnt/fbsd/a ufs rw 1 1 #/dev/ad2s1e /mnt/fbsd/e ufs rw 2 2 #/dev/ad2s1f /mnt/fbsd/f ufs rw 2 2 #/dev/ad2s1d /mnt/fbsd/d ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /mnt/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 /dev/acd1 /mnt/cdrom2 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 /dev/ad0s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s2a / ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s2d /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s2e /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s2f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/windows msdosfs rw 0 0 And yet, KDiskFree reports that /dev/ad0s2a is not mounted as root, but /dev/ad2s1a is. This is happening on both installations of FreeBSD! Should I just scrap my new installation and start fresh, or os there some remedy for this fstab thing I am unaware of? I'd rather learn from my mistakes than scrap it if I can, but this makes no sense to me. Thanks for the help, everyone. :) Shannon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
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