From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:49:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01016 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:21:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06826 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:32:30 -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 WAA22574; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:16:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:16:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Elliot Finley cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: dialout line In-Reply-To: <34b67cf6.69525397@castlenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Elliot Finley wrote: > I am using FreeBSD 2.2-stable > I have user ppp set up. > > My computer can't connect to my ISP... > > when I use ppp interactively, and go into term, I can issue commands > to my modem, and I can see the response. When I type atdt####### and > the modem connects, I can see the connect message. > But instead of the login prompt from my ISP I get a long string of the > same character. I had this working on com1 just fine, but when I > switched it to com2, everything broke. Make sure you're using the correct speed and bit settings for your modem and/or provider. See the help for the `set' command. You might check with a known working source that the modem is working properly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major