From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 12:53:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26022 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:53:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25993 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:53:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11965; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:52:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:52:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Bryce Newall cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Still more dialin problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Bryce Newall wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm still mystified as to why I'm having such a hard time dialing into my > FreeBSD system from the outside. I've done some more testing, and here's > what I've come up with so far: > > * Using Minicom, I can dial out from the FreeBSD machine to an outside > site, such as a BBS, with no problem. > > * From my other machine, running Windows NT, on a differnet phone line, > using HyperTerminal, I can dial out to a BBS. > > * Using HyperTerm and Minicom, though, I cannot even dial from the NT > machine to the FreeBSD machine and talk, or from the FreeBSD to the NT > machine. When I do it either way, I see the "CONNECT xxxx" message on the > FreeBSD box, but not in NT. And I get occasional spurts of letters > (nothing intelligible, though) on the FreeBSD machine, and nothing at all > on the NT machine. Perhaps you didn't enable the getty on that port? Perhaps your FreeBSD and NT modems hate each other? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message