From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 17 8: 0:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-107.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B3C1575C for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 07:59:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04462; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:56:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01049; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:59:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199908171459.PAA01049@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Fro Joe Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP nothing happens!!! In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:56:13 CDT." <000c01bee83a$8cfeab40$97e336ce@mypc.myhost.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:59:16 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Was your modem probed correctly ? This sort of thing happens when the IRQ is wrong - ie, the os doesn't know that there's a character waiting 'till you send one (at which point it has a quick look at the receive port). > I even enter the terminal mode and it is always like one character BEHIND > what I type... if I typed "ATDT" it would only show ATD... then if I pressed > space it'd be ATDT... my modem is a real modem... a 3Com/USR Fax Modem > (Akita OEM)... > > the kernel finds it and nothing happens in PPP... so thanks to this and not > enough help to be easily found... I switched over to Linux for my proxy > because they have the how-to's to get you going... I know I'll lose like 30% > on my multi-PPP connection, but at least I can find the help w/o having to > wait for a response... if anyone can help me with this I will consider > reinstalling FreeBSD 3.2... but a big recommendation I have is get some > better how-to's and such for help... > > Please send a copy of responses to me @ tennies@uwplatt.edu > > Joe Tennies... an unpleased customer I think you need to be a bit more thick-skinned. Sometimes support is fast & furious, sometimes it takes time, sometimes you need to rephrase the question to get people interested in answering.... -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message