From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 17:14: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1269114E60 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajohns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from tasajohns (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA22783; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:30:28 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ajohns@TurnAround.com.au) From: "Andrew Johns" To: "DAVID A. THERRIEN" , Subject: RE: ppp Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:13:15 +1000 Message-ID: <000d01bebc44$05e67560$4001a8c0@tasajohns.turnaround.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 21/06/1999 > > > > help! > > > i say dial and it says " can't open modem" > > > thank you More information is required if we are to be able to help you, specifically (at the bare minimum): 1) Which version of FreeBSD are you using? 2) How are you telling the machine to dial? 3) Have you been able to get a connection directly to the modem? 4) What programs have you tried and which ones are you using? 5) Have you done this before or is this the first attempt? 6) What docs have you read and either don't understand or need more help with? 7) Is the modem on, plugged in correctly, in the correct serial port? 8) What is the contents of your configuration files? (Have you edited any configuration files? If so, which ones?) 9) ... ... infinity) Got the idea? Further reading for you if you've not done this before: http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp.html After you've read this you may not have any questions left :) but you might need to do a lot more reading to understand what it's saying... Regards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message