Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:01:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@osfn.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Modem not responding at install Message-ID: <199908171401.PAA00823@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:05:40 EDT." <19990814110540.A1619@amergin..ids.net>
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> On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 09:53:55AM -0400, Bill A. K. wrote: > > do you really need to use PAP? > > can't you just use login style authentication (e.g. just type in your user > > name and password at the prompts and when the other side starts sending PPP, > > just press SHIFT + ~ and then press P)? > > let me know what happens. > > Two things... > > First the screen (in ppp terminal mode) seems one character behind > the responses from the process (local or remote) don't show up > untill after I type the next character (which itself doesn't > show up untill after the second character etc) > > This is bothersome since the prompts don't show-up untill > after I start typing the response...it's a very simple > standard login so this is surmountable. Sounds like you've got an IRQ problem. Are you sure your UART is probing correctly (``dmesg | fgrep sio'', or pressing SCROLL LOCK and a few PGUPs after booting) ? > Second the connection won't stay up. I get assigned my IP address > packets start coming and going. I switch back to tty1 hit OK > and I sais it can't resolve ftp.freebsd.org. I switch back to > tty3 and the connection is down. I've tried specifying both > my primary and secondary DNS servers as "Domain Name Server" > for "Gateway" I've tried both blank and 127.0.0.1 (this is a > home computer with dynamic IP dial-up) This is probably the same problem - your port doesn't work. > -- > Email: jon@osfn.org Resume: > jdp@efn.org http://users.ids.net/~tuan/resume -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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