From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 23 19:48:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA02466 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:48:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA02436 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.org (dev.lan.awfulhak.org [10.0.1.5]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA23968; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 03:47:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id DAA15329; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 03:47:48 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199707240247.DAA15329@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0delta 6/3/97 To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Raimbault?=" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: iijppp problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:34:34 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 03:47:48 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have noticed the following in iijppp: > > when I type: 'show modem' I notice the following line: 'outq: ioctt = > probe failed' and when I type: 'show log' and I notice the following = > line: 'Phase: Dead' The outq problem is because the modem is not currently open. I've fixed this in -current. Show log works ok for me though. > This all occurs when I attempt to connect to my ISP. I am trying to = > connect to my ISP so that I can install FBSD. I have never connected to = > this ISP with FBSD but with Win95 it works fine, I do not use scripts in = > Win95 so I assume the system uses chap or pap. Can the problems above = > prevent from dialing out and connecting and are the problems related? I = > have been able to connect to another ISP fine with BSD but that was = > nearly a year ago! The ISP had a different set up than the one I am = > attempting to connect nowadays. > > Any help would be appreciated, > > Thank you for all your time. Try setting up your authname, authkey etc and "accept PAP". CHAP is preferable, but your ISP probably does PAP :-( Go to http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html for pointers to online ppp docs. > Stephane Raimbault. [.....] > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....