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Date:      26 May 1998 17:45:56 -0400
From:      Chris Shenton <cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov>
To:        Brandon Bossenbroek <bossenbr@horse.supranet.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dial-up
Message-ID:  <xoipvh066zv.fsf@wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov>
In-Reply-To: Brandon Bossenbroek's message of Fri, 22 May 1998 15:24:07 -0500 (CDT)
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.96.980522151631.16228A-100000@horse.supranet.net>

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Brandon Bossenbroek <bossenbr@horse.supranet.net> writes:

> If I do a :
> 
> cu -l /dev/cuaa0 -s 115200
> 
> it says connected, but that is all it will let me do.

On some combo of FreeBSD systems around 2.2.1-2.2.5, I found cu/tip to
from one to another got me  a login prompt but nothing happened when I
typed. Some kind soul here said he thought there was a parity
problem. I switched to kermit (in ports) and had no problem.


> When I envoke PPP and say "dial supranet(my ISP)"
> it says "Dialing attempt 1"  and then "dialing failed".

I've never had a problem with pppd (kernel mode). This sounds like
you're using user-land "ppp", which I have much less experience with,
sorry. 

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