From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 16 22:46:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA09984 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA09979 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA11047; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:46:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Chris Shenton cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dialup hangs after Password: prompt, timeout after 300 seconds In-Reply-To: <199704170445.AAA04097@absinthe.i3inc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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