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Date:      Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:46:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Chris Shenton <chris@absinthe.i3inc.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dialup hangs after Password: prompt, timeout after 300 seconds
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970416224530.10694E-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199704170445.AAA04097@absinthe.i3inc.com>

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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Chris Shenton wrote:

> I searched the archives (questions, isp, hackers) and found a couple
> other folks who have had the same problem over the past two years or
> so. 
> 
> I dialup my box (2.2.1-RELEASE), it prompts for Login: and Password:
> but doesn't respond after I type my password -- I don't even know if
> it's listening to my password, since it doesn't echo it. After a
> while, my modem connection disconnects:

It looks like the system is having trouble handing off the connection to
login.  Take a peek at the Handbook section on setting up dialup and make
sure your configuration matches.

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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