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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!ddsw1!godot.cc.duq.edu!hudson.lm.com!terrazzo.lm.com!not-for-mail From: fredh@telerama.lm.com (fredh) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD-1.1.5: SLIP, elm problems Date: 23 Jul 1994 03:54:35 -0400 Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 40 Message-ID: <30qibr$90r@terrazzo.lm.com> References: <30ko5j$m6c@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: terrazzo.lm.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jeff Aitken (jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote: : I have recently installed FreeBSD-1.1.5, and have the following : questions/problems. : 1. I cannot get SLIP working. I added the following line to /etc/remote: : test:br#57600:pa=none:dv=/dev/tty01: : I then type 'tip test', at which point the TR light on the modem comes on, : but I get no "Connected ..." message. After about 5 seconds, tip exits : and I get a "link down" error. : So next, I installed kermit. When i type 'set line /dev/tty01', it : appears to hang, but if I ^C out of it, I am returned to the kermit prompt : and the line has been set. I then do a 'set speed 57600', followed by a : connect. At this point, I am successfully able to dial my internet provider. : However, after escaping back to kermit and typing 'suspend', I try to : invoke slattach, with the following line: : slattach -s 57600 /dev/tty01 : Things appear to work, as it gives me a message about sl0 being attached : to /dev/tty01. However, when I try to do a : route add default 168.143.0.1 1 : It complains about an obsolete or old option (something like that) which I : believe is referring to the 1 following my router's IP address. It then : gives me a "network unreachable" message. : What have I done? pseudo-device sl0 is configured into the kernel. The : serial port works (I am posting this message using this computer). What The simplest solution for your problem is to grab the SLIP FAQ. One suggestion though is not to use tty01, instead use cua01. Kermit will not hang if you use cua01.