Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 15:07:10 -0800 From: Philip Lauro <pnlcity@pitt.edu> To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Tip and Slip Message-ID: <3096AC1E.2272@pitt.edu>
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Hi Bugs Crew:) I have just finished rebuilding Tip so it would sync with a Hayes Accura Modem. Actually a friend of mine, who is a C programmer, had to change the source of Tip to make it work. Now Tip will dial the hayes, however, once I am connected with my service provider, things start to go wrong. 1) slattach seems to work with the slattach -s 57600 /dev/cuaa1 command, however the slip connection doesn't work. I can't get a ping! I have traced the problem to the file netstart. It doesn't seem to be starting all of the programs it needs to to support a slip connection (the 2.0 release did just fine, however, the information in those files doesn't seem to work in release 2.0.5). I had a UNIX wiz with 20 years experience look at this and neither he nor I could quite figure out why netstart wasn't working. Also, I installed Netscape (the newest version) and all the keymaps were absolutely screwed up. I tried to change the xwindow's various files to no avail, once again neither I nor my friend could figure out why the key mapping was so screwed up. Also, I have a working mouse, except it won't activate the man pages under xman (although it seems to do everything else. I can get all pages in the traditional manner. It would seem release 2.0.5 is a real nightmare folks. Forgive my limited vocabulary, I have only been working with UNIX for about a year (self-taught). This is a learning experience for me and I would appreciate some guidance in this matter. I didn't have any problems getting the prior releases up and running (timing dots and all), but for some strange reason, this release is really bizzare. I am running a 486DX50 local bus with a Hayes ACCURA modem, CTX monitor at 1260x760, a Trident svga with 1Mbyte, 32Mbytes Ram, 2 1.2Gbyte drives, a soundblaster 16, Scanjet IIp, and HP4 LaserJet. By the way, your program also rendered my Maynard tape backup system permanently disabled (I'm not even sure how that happened) along with my B drive. Well I'm having a great time out here, as you can tell. I'm a subscriber, so, honor me with your collective wisdom. Sincerely, Phil
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