From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 6 18:25:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20672 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:25:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.impulse.net (mail.impulse.net [204.188.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA20657 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:25:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@merchantsnet.com) Received: (qmail 18369 invoked from network); 7 Apr 1998 01:25:32 -0000 Received: from sb1-50.impulse.net (HELO 708644668) (204.188.6.50) by mail.impulse.net with SMTP; 7 Apr 1998 01:25:32 -0000 From: "Michael P. Sale" To: "Viren R. Shah" Cc: Subject: Re: Re:newbie ppp question. Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 18:22:25 -0700 Message-ID: <01bd61c3$9f505180$3206bccc@708644668> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Viren, As usual, not enough information was given by the newbie. No, I'm not sure I have everthing set up correctly. :-) The modem is a SupraExpress 33.6 external hooked up to a serial port. Thanks again, Mike ---------------------------------------------- Michael P. Sale MerchantsNet.Com mike@merchantsnet.com www.merchantsnet.com ---------------------------------------------- "Humility has no equal in the battle for knowledge" -- -----Original Message----- From: Viren R. Shah To: Michael P. Sale Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, April 06, 1998 6:17 PM Subject: Re:newbie ppp question. >Michael P. Sale writes: > Hello all, > > > > I am new to freebsd and most of unix. > > > > I am trying to get ppp (IPCP) dialout working on a newly installed > > PII 233 with freebsd 2.2.5 (CD-Rom set). I have set up both ppp.conf and > > > At this point the box hangs until I do a CTL-C. > >Michael, > This sounds like a misconfigured modem. Are you sure you have the > irq and port set right, and that you are using the correct cuaaX > device? I had the same problem (but on 2.2.6), until I configured > the modem correctly. > Is the modem a PnP modem? If so, you need 2.2.6 to detect a PnP > device. > > > Michael P. Sale > >Viren >-- >Viren R. Shah, {viren @ rstcorp . com} >"Haajar te hathiyar" > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message