Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:25:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ben Gardiner <ben@QueerNet.ORG> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help on modems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105192351.1402M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801040814.AAA03523@queernet.queernet.org>
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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Ben Gardiner wrote: > > Need help installing modems. > > First, I cannot find any documentation on this. Please > tell me where to look. > > My immediate background is BSD 2.1, which I still have on > another machine here -- the one I am using at this moment, > which dials-up to queernet.org where there is BSD 3.0. Which BSD? FreeBSD I assume, in that case queernet.org is ahead of the game, running -CURRENT. > The situation is this: my FreeBSD system shares with > Windows95. Windows95 can call out with no difficulty. > So I know the modem is working all right and the port is > configured okay. Must be something wrong with how I have > the FreeBSD modem software configured. > > On the FreeBSD side, I can call out, receive login prompt, > enter my login, but I cannot enter the password on the > remote machine. Screen freezes up and I have to exit using ~. > > Neither the FreeBSD hardcopy handbook nor the on-line > man pages reveal anything to me about this problem. The carriage return after your login name isn't coming through. Check your terminal settings. Try hitting <enter> without entering any username, you should get another login: prompt. If not, then you need to check those settings. Also check the mail archives at http://www.freebsd.org/search.html, this has come up before. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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