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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installation with PPP - HELP NEEDED!!!
Date: 24 Mar 1996 23:29:33 GMT
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agolden@cyberramp.net (Andrew Golden) writes:
> I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.0 on my system via ftp.  Everything in
> the installation goes very smoothely until I get to the PPP connection
> itself.  I type alt-f3 to see the 3rd terminal with the PPP process
> running and I have tried typing term to start the terminal program but
> after that, no matter what I type, nothing shows up except for the help
> and quit options for the term program.

You speak to your raw modem there.  So, type

atd012345678

to get it to dial.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)