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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP on FreeBSD v2.1.0 Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 21:43:13 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <31B7B361.766D@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4p56p5$8js@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) To: wsiaton@acsu.buffalo.edu wsiaton@acsu.buffalo.edu wrote: > > Help!!! > > I have a problem getting PPP setup. I dial and connect, but i can't > do anything after that. I hit Alt-F2, login, etc. and then try to ftp, > telnet, etc. and It just sits there. I also get an error when i swtich > to packet mode that says something like a file is already there. > I need a little more info here: are you using iijppp or pppd? Also, does your chat script end at dialing the number? It should include the login dialog with your ISP, to complete the PPP connection. Otherwise, you'll be looking at a login prompt at the other end. Check the Handbook on both versions of PPP and the support files needed in /etc/ppp. If that doesn't fix it, be sure to specify which version of PPP you are trying to set up, and how you've configured those files. > I also have another problem. FreeBSD doesn't always detect my > modem. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't. My modem is on COM2 > (sio1). > Several possibilities here. For a first approximation, make sure your ISA bus (I assume) is not running faster than 8.00 MHz. (eg, 33MHz/4 is a tad fast, as is 50 MHz/6). The ISA bus is not speced to run any faster than 8.00 MHz, and some cards for it eventually get lost if it runs any faster. This is especially true of network cards I've tried, but is not limited to them. I hope this helps! Ken