From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 20 20:15:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA18237 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 20:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA18217 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 20:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA06158; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 17:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 17:28:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Tim Ackermann cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help In-Reply-To: <33D0899B.55CC@tawd.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Tim Ackermann wrote: > I've got the bootable floppy and have booted with it multiple times > attempting to set up freebsd. I get all the way to the dial screen... > alt-F3...and when I get there I can't get it to do anything... > > I have done everything I can think of...set dial # and then dial...and > it fails. I have tried to dial my second line just to see if it is > dialing...but nothing happens. Make sure the device is set properly. Do 'show modem' to display the current settings. If the modem device is wrong, do 'set device ..' to change it. Note that /dev/cuaa0 = COM1 and /dev/cuaa1 = COM2. During the boot probe make sure that sio0 and sio1 are being detected properly, and make sure your modem is available on COM1 or COM2. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo