From owner-freebsd-questions  Mon Jan  5 19:25:34 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA18666
          for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:25:34 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions)
Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA18658
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:25:30 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu)
Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost)
          by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA01540;
          Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:25:12 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:25:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Ben Gardiner <ben@QueerNet.ORG>
cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Help on modems
In-Reply-To: <199801040814.AAA03523@queernet.queernet.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105192351.1402M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Ben Gardiner wrote:

> 
> Need help installing modems.
> 
> First, I cannot find any documentation on this.  Please
> tell me where to look.
> 
> My immediate background is BSD 2.1, which I still have on
> another machine here -- the one I am using at this moment,
> which dials-up to queernet.org where there is BSD 3.0.

Which BSD?  FreeBSD I assume, in that case queernet.org is ahead of the
game, running -CURRENT.

> The situation is this:  my FreeBSD system shares with
> Windows95.  Windows95 can call out with no difficulty.
> So I know the modem is working all right and the port is
> configured okay.  Must be something wrong with how I have
> the FreeBSD modem software configured.
> 
> On the FreeBSD side, I can call out, receive login prompt,
> enter my login, but I cannot enter the password on the 
> remote machine.  Screen freezes up and I have to exit using ~.
> 
> Neither the FreeBSD hardcopy handbook nor the on-line
> man pages reveal anything to me about this problem.

The carriage return after your login name isn't coming through.  Check
your terminal settings.  Try hitting <enter> without entering any
username, you should get another login: prompt.  If not, then you need to
check those settings.

Also check the mail archives at http://www.freebsd.org/search.html, this
has come up before.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major