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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:24:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        hawky/Hawksmom <hawk2@netcom.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Communication problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960612132203.7312F-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9606120012.A19012-0100000@netcom17>

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On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, hawky/Hawksmom wrote:

> I was able to use the term command and manually dial into both a ppp 
> account and my shell account with the ppp I was able to tlenet to the 
> machine I was dialed into.  

No problem there.

> But my new problem is in the time I was fixing my local ethernet, I 
> seemed to messed up my modem. the only thing I was changing was the 
> ifconfig lines in /etc/sysconfig. 

What did you change?

> The ppp.conf and other files were able to 
> locat e the mode at /dev/cuaa0 now it seem to not be able to find it.  On 
> boot up it seems to find it on sio1 type 16550A so I tried changing all 
> /dev/cuaa0 to /dev/cuaa1 in all the /etc and /etc/ppp files and I was 
> able  to open term inside of ppp but i could not type into it nor could I 
> kill the process. I could only ~. out of term but I could not kill the 
> process, I could only suspend it. they same thing happened when I tried 
> putting all the /dev/cuaa1 back to /dev/cuaa0 and tried to use /dev/cuaa0 
> as a hard link to /dev/cuaa1 

Be REALLY, REALLY careful linking and moving devices.  /dev/cuaa0 points 
to sio0 and /dev/cuaa1 points to sio1.  You could conceivably wreck the 
device files and make them totally unusable.  Then you would have to 
re-MAKEDEV them.  (./MAKEDEV sio0 (?))  

> 	I can't figure how my modem could have been moved to another com 
> port by toying with the /etc/sysconfig.  I am very new to FreeeBSD but 
> I am fairly familiar with running linux. 

I would like to know what you did to sysconfig.  There is nothing in 
there (that I remember) that controls the sio ports.

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




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