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From: gary@wheel.tiac.net (Gary D. Duzan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: PPP and Modem communications
Date: 22 Aug 1995 16:48:46 GMT
Organization: Brain Dead Innovations
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <41d1pe$g5m@sundog.tiac.net>
References: <416eo3$4s1@news.laser.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: wheel.tiac.net
In article <416eo3$4s1@news.laser.net>, <patton@laser.net> wrote:
=>
=>This is what I've typed at the prompt:
=>pppd /dev/tty01 38400 connect 'chat "" "ATE1L0M1N1Q0V1W2X4....." "OK" (wrap)
=>"ATDT934-9021" "login:" "****" "ssword:" "****"'
=>
=>The DTR light comes on but the send/receive lights do nothing.
=>dmesg reports the existance of com0 and com1 as 16550 uarts, FIFO enabled
=>but there is no /dev/com0 device. I looked at the MAKEDEV and sure enough they
=>don't get created but given the comments in there I assume there is a reason for this.
Try using the "modem" option to pppd and see if that helps.
Gary D. Duzan
Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts