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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Comm questions
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 07:24:47 -0700
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Obi-Wan wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had any sample seyon phonelist
> and startup files? I'm not quite sure how to set them up...when
> I did, it just sat there and wouldn't dial up...waited a while
> and just timed out...I also can't get my PPP to dial up, I set up
> a ppp.conf file, and have all the other ppp.* files, but I type
> chat ppp.conf and it sits, again, for a while, then just sort
> of times out, could it be my modem/com port? Maybe someone
> could send me a sample ppp.conf too.

I think you're overlooking something here. Check the handbook on user PPP 
setup -- I believe you're supposed to start the action with the ppp 
command. Then, the ppp.* files in /etc/ppp carry the rest of the info, 
and call on chat directly.

The problem is that if you call chat from the command line, it will do 
what you say but it won't start anything else. If you start ppp, it can 
call chat to start the connection and then switch over to the 
now-established IP connection.

> Also...during the install, I chose to install the BSDDIP program
> and, well, where is it? I'm not quite sure where it put it...
> 

use find   (find / -name bsddip)

Hope this helps!

Ken