From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 00:40:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA06866 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 00:40:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buffy.tpgi.com.au (buffy.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA06859 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 00:40:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eirvine@tpgi.com.au) Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by buffy.tpgi.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA24895; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:38:57 +1000 Received: from tar-ppp-172.tpgi.com.au(203.26.26.172), claiming to be "gretchen" via SMTP by buffy.tpgi.com.au, id smtpda24864; Wed Sep 2 17:38:51 1998 From: "Eddie Irvine" To: , "Chris Thain" Subject: Re: PPP Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:39:00 +1000 Message-ID: <01bdd644$c058b0c0$ac1a1acb@gretchen> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >HI, > I have a problem setting up the ppp to connect to my ISP... I think that I >have all the configuration correct in the ppp.conf and ppp.linkup but I >when I try "dial provider" I get "WARNING: DialModem: dial failed." I have >the phone line plugged in correctly and the phone line is free. If you >could tell me what the problem might be I'd greatly appreciate it Could be lots of things, Chris. First, make sure you can dial up manually (from the ppp command line prompt) - see the pedantic ppp primer for details. >Thanks, >Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message